Posted on 04/04/2020 4:50:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As the CPP virus swipes through the United States, much attention has been paid to the situation in large cities. That’s not, however, where the rate of infection has been the highest.
The epidemic has been the most concentrated in three suburbs around New York City as well as in New Orleans.
While New York City has the highest number of confirmed cases, over 57,000, when counted per capita, the worst hit is Rockland County, a neighboring suburb of some 325,000 on the west side of the Hudson River.
More than one in 67 Rockland residents has tested positive, a rate over twice as high as in New York City.
Westchester County, a large suburb across the river from Rockland, has about one in 74 residents confirmed infected, a total of more than 13,000 cases as of April 3, according to the state’s Department of Health.
New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana with a population of nearly 400,000, is the third most affected area in the nation, with more than 1 in 100 testing positive.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
You might be right, but Rockland County is on the opposite side of the Hudson River from NYC and has no direct rail service to the city. I would expect the five boroughs of NYC and Nassau and Westchester Counties to have the highest infection rates in the metro area, followed by Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey.
Unfortunately, black people are much more prone to diabetes. Hence, the higher mortality rates.
Is that due to genetics or lifestyle?
“NJ is the second highest deaths. The subway explains it.”
There are no subways in NJ. They are in NYC.
I am guessing a combination of both. I had a good friend (a black pastor) that had diabetes. He had a family history of diabetes and was told to watch what he ate. He didn’t maintain a strict healthy diet and died at 57 years old even though he wasn’t overweight.
I’m surprised it’s not queers, but then, they’re only about 1 to 2 percent of the population. Blacks in urban areas is intuitive.
If they tested everyone I'm sure they'd find it a lot higher.
I never eat there, so I should be okay.
Why not DC? And why not San Fransicko?
The Asian (mostly Chinese) population in Queens is significantly higher than the AA population.
“Having it called 20 different things isn’t good marketing, no matter which is right.”
you should write a letter to the Epoch Times and explain that to them ....
“There is no more efficient means of spreading any airborne communicable disease than by packing most of the population into subways or light rail trains two times every day.”
lots of surfaces for those sneezes and coughs to land on ... lots of contaminated surfaces to touch ...
The big risk factors are obesity, blood pressure and diabetes.
There are the very packed PATH trains that run, partly underground, between NYC and Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark, and many commuters take these, plus the trains from NY’s Penn Station that go lots of places in Jersey.
So the idea is sound, even if they’re not called subways. They can be almost as jammed as the subway at times.
New Jersey is a big “bedroom community” for those who work in NYC.
I also think people were not as aware of the danger as they are here in NYC. For days there was only one reported case there.
The Path is a subway, heavily used, that runs under the Hudson to Manhatten. There are crowded ferry’s every day that dump people off at buses in New York City. Then there are scores of trains coming into Penn station with crowded cars delivering people out into Manhattan. Every day a million people take some form of public transportation from New Jersey to New York City. Others go south by train into Philly.
I would be curious whether it was the African-Americans who make up the majority of those patients, or Asian-Americans.
Good point.
The best way to study the virus IMO is to read small town newspapers. I picked Nebraska where there were 8 deaths. The local papers give details on the victims. 2 were in hospice. 2 were in their 90s. All had multiple underlying conditions. I think the media is grossly exaggerating who is at risk.
I would love to blame this on illegal aliens, but let's face it: The NYC metro area is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and NYC is one of the most popular destinations for domestic and international travel in the world, both business and pleasure, with two international airports, multiple domestic airports, interstate and intrastate passenger railroads, and cruise ship ports. The NYC transit system moves twice the population of Los Angeles every day.
Checked my yearbooks, not a single Asian.
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