Metro Detroit Arab community struggles to assess COVID impact due to “White” census classification Posted: Saturday 04.17.2021 8:45 am Revised: Monday 04.19.2021 8:45 am Since Governor Whitmer declared a state of emergency last March, Dr. Zafar Shamoon, chief of emergency services at Beaumont Hospital-Dearborn, has witnessed first-hand the precariously rising cases of COVID-19 in the community. “Dearborn has been hit very hard,” Shamoon told The Arab American News. “This is one of the busiest, if not the busiest of my 14 years of emergency medicine that I’ve seen. We have a tremendous amount of patients and it’s not just COVID. We are also getting our regular volume of patients. That’s what makes it so overwhelming at times.”