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A man and his father died within 6 hours of each other, sending the family reeling and amplifying concerns about racial bias in the US health care system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGary Fowler died in his home on April 7, after desperately seeking coronavirus testing and treatment without success. As USA Today \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/04\/20\/coronavirus-racial-disparity-denied-tests-hospitalization\/5163056002\/\u0022\u003Ereports\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\t\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-left:.5in;\u0022\u003EGary Fowler, 56, went to the emergency rooms of three metro Detroit hospitals in the weeks leading up to his death, begging for a coronavirus test, begging for help because he was having difficulty breathing, but he was repeatedly turned away, Gambrell said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\t\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-left:.5in;\u0022\u003E\u0022My dad passed at home, and no one tried to help him,\u0022 Gambrell, 33, said through tears. \u0022He asked for help, and they sent him away. They turned him away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\t\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-left:.5in;\u0022\u003EIn the hours before his death, breathing was so difficult, Fowler slept sitting up in the bedroom chair, while his wife, Cheryl, dozed in the bed by his side. When she woke, her husband of nearly 24 years was gone.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\t\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-left:.5in;\u0022\u003EBefore he took his last breaths, Fowler scrawled on a piece of paper, \u0022Heart beat irregular ... oxygen level low.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe day prior, Fowler\u2019s father had died from Covid-19 at the age of 76.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFowler\u2019s stepson, Keith Gambrell, who has also tested positive for the coronavirus, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/coronavirus-detroit-man-dead-turned-away-from-er\/\u0022\u003Esaid in a CBS News\u003C\/a\u003E interview that he believes that racial bias played a role in Fowler\u2019s death. \u0022I honestly believe it was because my father was black,\u201d he said. \u201cThey didn\u0027t honestly take his symptoms serious enough to give him a test.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022\u003E\n\t\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EWhile the latest funding bill provides money for testing, some states are already ramping up their testing programs. But tests have been difficult to get in many places.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jerickaduncan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E@Jerickaduncan\u003C\/a\u003E spoke to one family, now mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested 3 times. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/XkYwnC3FJK\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/XkYwnC3FJK\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\u2014 CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSThisMorning\/status\/1252927705009569793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EApril 22, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGambrell \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/04\/20\/coronavirus-racial-disparity-denied-tests-hospitalization\/5163056002\/\u0022\u003Etold USA Today\u003C\/a\u003E that in the hours following Fowler\u2019s funeral, Fowler\u0027s wife had to be put on a ventilator due to Covid-19 complications after being turned away from the first hospital they tried. The ordeal has tested the family\u2019s resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This coronavirus is gonna cause so much PTSD for people. It\u0027s sad,\u0022 Gambrell said. \u0022There\u0027s going to be a major fallout after this. It\u0027s not right at all.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout one third of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/public-interest\/2020\/04\/michigan-coronavirus-daily-death-numbers-spike-to-new-high-but-with-a-caveat.html\u0022\u003Ecoronavirus cases in Michigan\u003C\/a\u003E are among African Americans, despite Black people only comprising 14 percent of the state\u2019s population. 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