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First time I ever heard of Flushing having overcrowded tenements. Brings uo an image out of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Actually Flushing has always been middle class people in one or two family homes or along Northern Blvd and Roosevelt Avenue in comfortable apartment buildings. Though your description of multi generations living together is accurate in many cases.

OK here is how it work. There are plenty of middle class, upper class Chinese, doctors, lawyers, rich businessmen etc, who live in pretty nice houses away from the Flushing Main Street. Even they still live with their grandparents/parents. The Chinese stringly believe in looking after their old folks.
Then we have the poorer, more recant immigrants from China, who can barely speak any English and do any menial jobs they can find. They tend o live in overcrowded tenements. They probably have born the brunt of the very high incidence of coronavirus in Queens.
It's big dichotomy. I have seen more Ferrari's and Lamborghini's in Flushing than anywhere else. At the same time, I have seen some of the poorest people in new York in Flushing too. Like anything else, the poor and the leas healthy will suffer most.