Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, widely touted as a potential vice president pick for Joe Biden, is offering fresh evidence that the coronavirus pandemic in her state is disproportionately affecting minorities.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, widely touted as a potential vice president pick for Joe Biden, is offering fresh evidence that the coronavirus pandemic in her state is disproportionately affecting minorities, citing statistics that 41 percent of those infected in Michigan are people of color.
“It’s too early to draw final conclusions,” she added. “But the fact of the matter is, it’s concerning. And I think you see similar data coming out of Illinois and out of Louisiana.” Story continuesWhitmer, in the “Skullduggery” interview, was responding to a question about why Michigan had become a national hot spot for the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. As of Tuesday, the state had more than 18,000 cases and 845 deaths — the third-highest totals in the country, behind only New York and New Jersey. She noted that Detroit, like Chicago and New York, has a major international airport with lots of visitors from foreign countries.
But Whitmer’s higher national profile and her criticism of White House response efforts have also invited attacks from Trump, who referred to her in a March 27 tweet as “Gretchen ‘Half’ Whitmer” who was in “way over her head.” Trump also said he instructed Vice President Mike Pence, who is overseeing the federal government’s response to the coronavirus, that he should not “call the woman in Michigan.
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