From the newsroom of the Washington Post,

this is Cleveland, so with the Washington Post.

It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm Martin Powers.

It's Thursday, June 4.

Today, the failure to protect black Americans from COVID,

white Trump is pulling out of the WHO and cameras in protests.

This week, we found out that George Floyd had coronavirus.

Robert Samuels is a national political reporter for the post.

And on Wednesday, officials in Minnesota released the full report from Floyd's autopsy.

One of the things that revealed was that he had tested positive for COVID-19 in early April.

The medical examiner did not cite the virus as a factor in his death.

One of the things is it shows just how widespread COVID-19 has been in black communities.

For an African-American to test positive for a coronavirus has become a really

unfortunately frequent tale as this pandemic has played out.

So you've been reporting on the depth and the scale of how COVID really spread so quickly and so

immensely within black communities, especially in the early parts of the pandemic.

So tell me about why you started looking more into that.

There was a lot that we didn't know at first.

We saw reports coming from big cities saying that there was a disproportionate impact happening in the big cities.

But there are lots of places that didn't have data at all that prompted lots of questions about the interactions between local officials and community activists

...