gone are the days when you have to pull up to a mcdonald s and sit in the parking lot with your child to do their homework when there s virtual learning going on. dr. king said of all the forms of inequity injustice in health care is the most shocking and most inhumane. this is a once in a century pandemic that has hit this country hard and especially the african-american community. it s like you ve all lost someone to the virus or no someone who has lost a loved one. 1 in 600 black americans have died from covid-19. it s been reported that the black children more than twice as likely as white children to have lost a parent or a care giver to covid-19, to have to experience the trauma and loss. many of my colleagues in the congress are working on what we have to now work on even more fervently, and that is mental