The poor in America are slowly dying of Covid-19 due to lack of medical access and ethnic discrimination.

Two years ago, Pamela Rush traveled from Lowndes County, Alabama to Washington, DC to testify in front of a US Congressional committee on poverty and "rape" rent in an area that has long been infamous for love.

"They charge me more than $ 114,000 for a collapsed mobile home. Wastewater is exposed. I have no money. I am poor," Pamela Rush said during the hearing.

A month ago, she passed away because of Covid-19.

The words above can be used to describe the needy in the deep-lying counties of the south of the United States, where access to health is difficult, erroneous policies as well as segregation and segregation.

During the heavy rain, Sandy Oliver, one of Rush's best friends in high school, recalled the people she had lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lowndes County, southern Alabama, is a sparsely populated rural area with a population of less than 10,000.

One in every 18 people here have Covid-19, the highest rate in all of Alabama and among the highest rates in the country.

Oliver knew most of the 24 people who died of Covid-19 at Lowndes.

For many communities in the deep south of the United States, stories of death, loss and suffering over Covid-19 are believed to have rooted in problems long ago.

Decades ago, this county was called "Bloody Lowndes" for the blemish killing of people of color, treating whites as superior as well as the crimes of the KKK gang.

However, 55 years later, economic inequality has not yet been resolved.

There are not even hospitals here and people like Oliver or Rush have to travel tens of kilometers if they want to be treated.

While the Trump administration has pledged to support hospitals that accept Covid-19 treatment for patients without health insurance, social stigma and fears of not being covered by formal insurance are preventing many from becoming ill.

When Rickey Lewis, Oliver's son-in-law, contracted Covid-19 resulting in pneumonia, delirium and high fever, he dared not call an ambulance and drove himself to the hospital.

Lewis was located at Vaughan Regional Hospital 4 days before being discharged from the hospital.

However, his wife, Quanita, does not believe in this much.

Meanwhile, in Leflore County, Mississippi, Dr. Rachael Faught cannot hide his fatigue.

Faught had seen first-hand that three members of one family died from Covid-19.

"Our emotions change rapidly. There are times when I feel ready to work and I really want to care for the sick because I have been trained to do this. However, there are times when I feel frustrated,

Although he has grown accustomed to the treatment of Covid-19 patients and has had some success while taking remdesivir, like rural hospitals in the US, Greenwood Leflore is in financial trouble and is still lacking.

Greenwood, on the banks of the Yazoo River, is Leflore County's largest city and has a history of civil rights.

Standing in the town hall, where his grandparents were denied the right to vote, Tavaris Cross compared what happened in the past to the current plague.

Not far away is a Confederacy statue erected in 1913. Following the recent Mississippi decision to remove the Confederacy's flag from its state flag, Leflore County also voted.

Even though he was happy, Cross was cautious about its long-term consequences of ethnicity in Greenwood.

As the organizer of the Poor People 's Campaign, Cross has worked with many lucky people who survived Covid-19, including Patrick Ivory, who lost his job after taking sick leave.

Ivory lists a series of symptoms he has had over the past month, including pneumonia and a fever of up to 40 degrees Celsius.

Ivory had to stay in the emergency room when his blood oxygen levels plummeted.

"He did a great job, but after he got sick, they no longer wanted anything to do with us," Ms. Davuchi said.