Reposted from @kishlb #Detroit man with virus symptoms dies after 3 ERs turn him away, family says: "He was begging for his life" UPDATED ON: APRIL 22, 2020 / 8:14 AM / CBS NEWS A Detroit family is mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested for the #coronavirus three times. "He was begging for his life, but no one would help him at all. Like they just kept sending him away," said #KeithGambrell, the stepson of 56-year-old #GaryFowler. Gambrell said he was concerned his stepfather had coronavirus. He took him to three different emergency rooms and said each time, Fowler was not admitted and not tested, despite having many of the symptoms. "I honestly believe it was because my father was black. They didn't honestly take his symptoms serious enough to give him a test," Gambrell told "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Jericka Duncan. The day before Fowler died, his father, David, died from COVID-19. Soon after, Fowler's wife, Cheryl, began having symptoms of her own, landing her in the hospital. "They put her on the ventilator. I'm just thinking like, man, this is it. I'm about to lose my mom too," Gambrell said. Gambrell was concerned other family members could be next, so he called his cousin, State Representative #KarenWhitsett for help. Whitsett, who visited the White House last week to speak about surviving coronavirus, made sure her family was tested. Asked if she thinks her family would have been tested if she were not a state lawmaker, Whitsett said, "Absolutely not." #covid_19 #blackman #blm #hospital https://www.instagram.com/p/CeKdk4SjdNE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
