FILE - In this April 7, 2020, file photo, an MTA worker wears personal protective equipment at the Grand Army Plaza station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

In this April 7, 2020, photo, Erica Harris, right, and her daughter Jordan, wear their protective masks as they walk back home after getting a lunch and homework from the child’s school on Chicago’s Southside in Chicago. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In this March 7, 2020, photo provided by Marsha Battle Philpot, Brenda Perryman, sits at a Detroit Symphony Orchestra performance at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, in Detroit. As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. In Detroit, the deaths include Gloria Smith, a fixture at the city’s African World Festival, who died within a week of her husband, and educator and playwright Perryman. (Marsha Battle Philpot, aka Marsha Music via AP)

In this April 7, 2020, photo, a subway rider wears a mask and a bandana to protect himself against COVID-19 in New York. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this April 7, 2020, photo, two women pass each other and an African-American mural as they travel to and from a local grocery store on Chicago's Southside. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In this 2019 photo provided by Marsha Battle Philpot, Philpot, right, widely known by her moniker Marsha Music and Brenda Perryman pose for a photo at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Motown Museum expansion in Detroit. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. The coronavirus deaths in Detroit include educator and playwright Perryman and Gloria Smith, who was a staple at the city’s African World Festival and died within a week of her husband. (Marsha Battle Philpot via AP)