Michael was a 46-year-old Black man, Marcie Roth recalled to Salon, and his life was destroyed following a heart attack.
Roth is the executive director and chief executive officer of the World Institute on Disability, an international nonprofit center on public policy. As she recalled Michael's story, her voice was filled with emotion. Michael's heart attack had nothing to do with COVID-19, but because it left him disabled, he was sent to a nursing home. While there, he developed a COVID-19 infection, so the nursing home sent him to a hospital. That is where ableism reared its ugly head.
