MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (WOOD) — In Muskegon County, the death rate for COVID-19 patients is more than twice the state average. That’s leading to questions about whether the message of social distancing is reaching some minority areas.
In a county where 80% of the population is white, nearly half the 41 patients who have tested positive are black: 18 black, 13 white, one Asian and nine cases in which the race isn’t listed.
Three of the four who have died in the county were black, including 57-year-old Lloyd Evans, who lived in a Muskegon Heights group home on social security for a lifelong learning disability. He died April 3 in that home.
He was the youngest of eight siblings.