In the United States, 2020 would be remembered not just for the COVID pandemic, but also for the Black Lives Matter protests. It was the year when the masses came out to protest the racial injustice taking place across the country. But despite, millions taking the streets demanding a fair and equal society, things do not seem to have changed much. An Indiana doctor died of coronavirus on Sunday after allegedly being denied proper medical care because she was black.

She mustered to post a video on Facebook days before her death. In the video, Moore claims that the white doctor at the Indiana University Hospital North downplayed her complaints of pain. Her doctor also refused to believe that she was short of breath and did not pay heed to her complaints of pain in her neck.

Moore, a patient this time, can be seen ‘begging’ for treatment in the video. “I was crushed. He made me feel like I was a drug addict,” she said.

In the post on Facebook on December 4, Moore described how the doctor treating her refused to conduct a proper diagnosis. “He did not even listen to my lungs, he didn’t touch me in any way. He performed no physical exam. I told him you cannot tell me how I feel,” Moore, a physician herself, wrote.

In the United States, Black people — and Latinos — are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention (CDC), due to economic disparities.

This coupled with discriminatory treatment has made the pandemic even worse for these communities.

The hospital offered condolences over the death of the 52-year-old physician and also said that it took accusations of discrimination very seriously, BBC reported. But in their statement, they refused to talk about this particular incident and did not mention if an inquiry would be conducted into Susan Moore’s death by COVID.