Saturday, March 28, 2020

Coronavirus map shows the poorest New Yorkers are getting infected the most


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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:

Anonymous said...

Dems are usually obsessed with race and ethnicity. Not so much in a pandemic. Who is in all those hospital beds.

Anonymous said...

Wow I live in one of the poorest areas according to this map. Who knew?

KEN said...

Will the residents of the new apartments be given gas masks? They will probably need them when living on top of that toxic creek.

JQ LLC said...

@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.

Anonymous said...

Belle Harbor is near many nurnsing homes and homeless 1/2 way housing.

Anonymous said...

This only shows people that tested positive. How many people were tested from each area and why? The map doesnt really tell us much

Anonymous said...

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.

JQ LLC said...

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

Anonymous said...

Kiryas Joel in Orange County is having many cases of COVID19 too !

Anonymous said...

Amazing how this virus is only killing men and women ? Makes you think the other 58 genders have escaped big time.

Anonymous said...

How come they can tally all these illnesses so fast but they are still counting primary votes in California and Iowa?

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Daily News article re the clusters was removed from internet. I knew that was coming.