We had been ignoring this, until news of the death of the Rev. Joseph Lowery hit home.
Over the last few days, your "Google" search machine might have turned up the fact that Andrew Robert Young, the U.S. ambassador the west African nation of Burkina Faso, had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease linked to the novel coronavirus.
This is not, his people assure us, Andrew Jackson Young of Atlanta, the former mayor, congressman, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Our Andrew Young is in Atlanta, taking anti-coronavirus restrictions very seriously.
He celebrated his 88th birthday on March 12 and since then has been in self-isolation with his wife Carolyn at home, after being urged to do so by his family.
He and Carolyn are healthy and he has been writing, a spokesman said. He did step outside his house to do a short interview on camera, at a distance, memorializing the Reverend Lowery.
Andrew Robert Young, the ambassador in west Africa, is easily distinguished from the civil rights leader:
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