By Victor Omondi
Dr. Susan Moore from Indianapolis tested positive for COVID-19 on November 29th. She later succumbed to the virus on December 20 after reportedly saying she had to beg for proper medication.
Dr. Moore threw a bombshell of allegations at the Indiana University North Hospital, where she claimed to have been denied additional doses of such a crucial COVID-19 treatment as Remdesivir. She also claims to have been sent home while she still felt ill.
In a Facebook post, Dr. Moore wrote, “I had to beg to get the Remdesivir because Dr. Bannec said my chest x-ray was normal. I then had to beg for a CT of my chest, which I finally got and it showed large mediastinal lymphadenopathy right lower lobe infiltrate in a new left lower lobe infiltrate.”
Pictured, Dr. Susan Moore Indiana black doctor who cited her race leading to mistreatment at hospital.
Dr. Susan Moore black Indiana doctor dies of COVID-19 following video in which she complaints that she was mistreated because of her race.
A black
Indiana doctor has died in hospital just two weeks after posting video claiming that she was being mistreated & delayed proper care because of her race while suffering from the coronavirus.
Dr. Susan Moore, 52, of
Indianapolis died on Sunday, December 20, due to complications from
She was first diagnosed with COVID-19 on November 29. Since then, she had been admitted to the
An African-American doctor who died of coronavirus left a message about racial disparity not just when it comes to how COVID-19 itself affects people of color but also about medical establishment's attitudes toward Black patients' assessment of their own pain.
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The accusations hit close to home to many Black Americans who are intimately familiar with a history of medical racism in the United States that ranges from access to medical care and information to abusive medical testing.
Dr. Susan Moore died today from COVID, but HOW she died is unacceptable. She posted a video to Facebook from an Indiana hospital days before her death about mistreatment. This is how black people get killed when you send them home and they don t know how to fight for themselves https://t.co/iSF8rs7qmIpic.twitter.com/3a8qE6DhN3 Cleavon MD (@Cleavon MD) December 22, 2020