Q: I’ve heard that black people can’t get coronavirus.
A: Anyone can get coronavirus.
Any person who comes into close contact with someone who is infected is at risk for contracting the virus, according to the CDC.
“Black people can get coronavirus, just like other people,” said Dr. Jennifer Caudle, an African-American family physician who has also been
debunking coronavirus myths.
Caudle said she worries that some people may not take proper precautions to protect themselves against the virus because they may have heard this myth.
In Africa, the pandemic is gaining a foothold. So far, the virus hasn’t spread in Africa as quickly as it has on some other continents. But numbers there
are rising fast.