NY Daily News
A city map suggests what many New Yorkers already suspected: Coronavirus is hitting the poorest neighborhoods hardest.
The map shows the biggest share of people testing positive for the deadly virus are in a swathe of the city’s poorer neighborhoods, which stretches in a boomerang shape from central Brooklyn through Queens and out to the Rockaways.
A chunk of the South Bronx is also being slammed with more than half the patients testing positive.
Well-heeled
neighborhoods like Riverdale, Bayside, Bay Ridge and most of Manhattan
are faring relatively much better, with less than 40% testing positive
for COVID-19.
Anti-poverty
advocates say that the findings likely reflect the fact that poor and
working-class people have been far less able to abide by
social-distancing rules.
They are also less likely to have jobs that allow them to work remotely like better-off New Yorkers.
14 comments:
Dems are usually obsessed with race and ethnicity. Not so much in a pandemic. Who is in all those hospital beds.
Wow I live in one of the poorest areas according to this map. Who knew?
Will the residents of the new apartments be given gas masks? They will probably need them when living on top of that toxic creek.
@Anon re: poorest
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I like to use the Rockaways as an example. That is a big area and it's presenting the whole beach as infected, instead of parsing out the neighborhoods like say Far Rockaway and Belle Harbor.
Belle Harbor is near many nurnsing homes and homeless 1/2 way housing.
This only shows people that tested positive. How many people were tested from each area and why? The map doesnt really tell us much
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/28/de-blasios-coronavirus-crisis-1269480
A yet another example of the failure of local leadership. Blaming Trump can only get you so far. The last 3 years the Dems have wasted everyone's time going after Trump when they could have presented an alternative program on what they can do for us ... instead of hijacking all public resources to build the Party.
The homeless half way housing is in Rockaway Park on the boardwalk. I know of one nursing home in Belle Harbor. Still this map should have shaded the neighborhoods instead of the whole county
Kiryas Joel in Orange County is having many cases of COVID19 too !
Amazing how this virus is only killing men and women ? Makes you think the other 58 genders have escaped big time.
How come they can tally all these illnesses so fast but they are still counting primary votes in California and Iowa?
I live in NYC and I blame 4 things that made this city a mess and an epicenter:
1. China
2. Cuomo
3. De Blasio
4. NYC super Dem majority government.
That's because dirty people breed more germs than others. And usually the dirty people are those who are not from the 50 states. And also, can you really call any place "poor" in nyc when it seems like not many people here are complaining about the price of rents when they all literally live on top of one another. You would think that the price of rent here would scare foreigners and illegals away but it seems to do the complete opposite.
Daily News article re the clusters was removed from internet. I knew that was coming.
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