Since the start of June, 14 states and Puerto Rico have set records.

Looking at the seven-day average of new cases this month, the Washington Post reported,

those places have seen their highest-ever number of cases.

States include Alaska, Florida, California, South Carolina.

Many of them have hotspots in small counties like Lincoln County, Oregon, and three counties in

Northern Utah. Texas is also on that list. Texas, of course, is where George Floyd was laid to

rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Houston. But in the tradition of the African-American church,

this will be a home-going celebration. Come on, I want to say it again. This will be a home-going

celebration. The number of people who could come to the Fountain Praise Church was limited to

hundreds of people to maintain social distancing. The church usually can hold thousands.

Mia Wright is co-pastor there. First, we do ask you to keep your mask on within the sanctuary.

We thank God for that. If anyone is coming up. Coming up, the mysterious illness affecting

children who might have had the virus. This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers,

it's Tuesday, June 9.

Back in March, Dr. Uche Blackstock, a physician and founder of a group called Advancing Health Equity,

could see all this coming. The risk factors for people of color.

So I think many of us who have done work within health equity and have been paying attention

to racial health disparities, we were very concerned from the beginning. People of color are

less likely to have insurance or access to health care. They also have higher rates of chronic

conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure. And they are more likely to catch the disease because

so many of them are essential workers. So essentially what we had was, you know, a crisis within a

crisis. So what can public health officials do about it? For one thing Blackstock says, scientists

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