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It’s a Tuesday afternoon in downtown Fresno, and a line of cars has wrapped around the block from the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission to Chukchansi Stadium. A petite karaoke singer belts out George Harrison on the sidewalk, while the drivers, masked and corralled into reserved parking spots, wait for Testing Tuesday to begin. The drive-through COVID-19 testing event is free, offered weekly as a part of Fresno’s African American Coalition. It aims to bring in members of a demographic that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is nearly twice as likely to contract the virus as whites and almost three times as likely to die from it . Simultaneously, many Blacks delay care out of mistrust for the medical system, says coalition lead Shantay Davies-Balch. “There’s been generations and generations of mistreatment of Black and brown bodies, and it’s going to take time before that trust has been fully restored,” says Davies-Balch, a long-time public health
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