Detroit Bus Driver Dies From COVID-19 After Complaining About A Passenger Coughing On Him

A Detroit Department of Transportation driver died Wednesday night from COVID-19.
Jason Hargrove,50 took to social media on March 21 when a passenger boarded his bus and repeatedly coughed in front of him and about eight other passengers without covering her mouth.
Hargrove got off the bus and posted a video to Facebook complaining about the woman passenger. In the video he said “It’s at some point in time where you got to draw the line and say enough is enough. I feel violated; I feel violated for the folks that were on the bus when this happened.
“There was about eight or nine people on the bus that stood there as she coughed and never covered up her mouth.
“This is real. Ya’ll need to take this serious. This is real. I’m out here, we out here, we moving the city around back and forth trying to do our jobs and be professional about what we do.”
Hargrove began to feel sick four days after the coughing incident and then died a week later.
Although it is unclear if he actually transmitted the disease from the woman coughing or if he contracted it elsewhere.
Union president Glenn Tolbert said he is devastated about Hargrove’s death and the buses are being cleaned more frequently and they are giving all drivers masks and gloves to wear.
Detroit mayor Mike Dugan announced Thursday that the city will be the first in the nation to test first responders, bus drivers and healthcare workers with a new rapid 15 minute testing kit.