Posted on 04/02/2020 9:43:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - The coronavirus pandemic has touched every part of New York City, but new data shows it is hitting especially hard in neighborhoods that tend to be poorer and might be more likely to have many people living under one roof.
Here are the latest coronavirus developments in New York:
Data released late Wednesday by city health officials shows that residents in the immigrant-rich Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona sections of Queens have tested positive for the virus in far greater numbers and at higher rates per capita than in wealthy, mostly white parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
People living in one Queens zip code just south of LaGuardia Airport were roughly four times as likely to have tested positive as people in the gentrified section of Brooklyn that Mayor Bill de Blasio calls home.
The numbers back something that has, for days, seemed obvious at Elmhurst Hospital, the only major medical center serving that part of Queens where infections are most prevalent.
Long lines of people waiting for testing and treatment outside the hospital have been one of the defining images of the pandemic, as have stories of multiple deaths in Elmhurst’s overburdened wards.
Asked about the disparities, Dr. Mitchell Katz, chief executive of the city-run hospital system, said crowded housing could be playing a role.
“We know that in Queens, many families, because of poverty, live together in very close quarters. So that while we are practicing as a city social distancing, you may have multiple families living together in a very small apartment. And so it’s easy to understand why there’s a lot of transmission of COVID occurring,” he said.
A disproportionately high number of people have also tested positive for COVID-19 in certain Brooklyn.
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If we don't change our China relationship and SECURE OUR BORDERS - It's all over. Kaput. Our Republic is no longer.
Thank God I live on the South shore Staten island.
whatever is happening in Manhattan and Brooklyn can stay in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
And whatever is happening on Obama’s son’s side of the island can stay there
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary.pdf
Latest NYC numbers.
“Women and children hardest hit!”
How is this even a story. Of course poorer neighborhoods are hit harder by ANY hardship.
Duh...
AP...its “Women and minorities hardest hit”
Get your talking points correct or Biden will grope your daughters.
Wait hold on !
they still have to pull out the “ women and children hit hardest”
Line yet
cough[democratvoters]cough
Wasn’t there an article posted on here that Queens has a huge Chinese population? No wonder the cases are so high there.
AP makes no mention of Flushing? It's right next to these neighborhoods. They share the same packed 7 train.
Flushing happens to be NYC's biggest Chinatown. It's the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.
I bet AP is covering up for the Chicoms.
No one has yet answered my inquiry concerning what percentage of those afflicted had received Flu and Pneumonia shots? Has that been a deterrent? Anyone know?
I recall Flushing was more Korean…?
34% of NYC's COVID deaths are in Queens. Only 15% are in Manhattan.
This virus has hit the upper middle class hardest. The only reason they can make the claim in this article is that they have Manhatten which is very rich and not nearly as dense. The rest of New York is filled with immigrants (wealthy-ish ones) and subway riding middle class workers. This disease is not in the low class neighborhoods. The people with families and jobs with connection to foreigners are the hardest hit. Especially if those foreigners are from China or Iran. This article is just trying to stoke class warfare.
Apartment living as opposed to people that make enough money to live out in the suburbs in a single family home.
Don’t be a lemming or sardine if you can help it.
No one has yet answered my inquiry concerning what percentage of those afflicted had received Flu or Pneumonia shots? Anyone know?
“How many intensive care beds are occupied by illegal aliens.”
More than a few, I know the area well. I predicted we’d see as the borough of Queens has more than double the hospitalizations and ChiCom Virus cases than Manhattan.
I’ve lived in both and would ride my bike to Flushing’s park by the former Shea Stadium and World’s Fair park. You’d see nothing but Hispanics many likely not legal. For some reason many went there to play volleyball not only soccer.
Seeing so many little guys playing a form of volleyball is quite a sight.
I knew once NYC wouldn’t release details on neighborhood areas of infection that the area around Elmhurst would be highly problematic. Another area not mentioned here which I suspect is contributing is Flushing, Queens.
That area has an exception amount of Chinese people. I would guess there’s a line you could draw from JFK Airport to Flushing, through these other neighborhoods to Elmhurst Hospital.
This is quite literally, the epicenter of the ChiCom Virus in NYC.
It’s a damn disaster what NYC officials have done.
What are gonna do when they find out that it’s the men that are hardest hit?
Hahaha! You’re killin me!
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