An Iraqi teen with autism expresses himself through color. He draws in black since hi

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It pains her to have to ask that question. Ussayid, 19, has autism and struggles to verbally express his thoughts, fears, and pain. He does so through colors.
"We worked for years to get him away from the black of death," she explains. "But this was his expression of his fear that I would die or that my husband who he considers as a father figure would die."

Nahla and her husband Aqil both contracted the coronavirus within days of each other. To get Covid-19 in Iraq means to assume responsibility for yourself, she says. The situation in the hospitals is simply too dire.
Iraq's numbers have been spiking -- it has recorded over 390,000 cases and 9,600 deaths from the virus. The country's medical infrastructure, decimated from decades of sanctions, corruption and war, is hardly able to keep up, and health care workers say they lack personal protective equipment.