Conversation

As we remember #ShafiqahHudson and the fact that her death hinged on marginalization and the disparate treatment she received at the hands of the healthcare industry as a Black woman, it is also important that we name what killed her.

She is dead because she caught COVID.

The havoc that COVID wreaked on her body was fatal. It took years, and it was complicated by other things, but ultimately she would still be with us without that virus.

Think of her and put a mask on your face in public.