Thousands of coronavirus tests performed in low-income communities of color around New York City showed rates of infection much higher than the city average, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
Good thing so many states are allowing in-person church services…oh, wait.
I’m sure the statistics are worse in disadvantaged communities for just about every health outcome that’s measured, starting with asthma and going right through the alphabet.
These neighborhoods are also where the sacrificial workers live.
I fucking hate this.
Me too, sister.
Here in S.F. Latinos make up 15% of the population and count for 37% of covid 19 cases. It breaks my heart.
Jesus. One-third of the tested population is infected? Holy shit. Well, we’re going to find out an unreasonable estimate for the COVID-19 mortality rate. Unreasonable because this did NOT have to happen.
No it didn’t. It’s a genocide.
Too bad there’s no stable geniuscide.
Give him a chance. If he really is taking hydroxychlorquine there still could be.
Some quite bright rays of hope today in the Times. Welcome news. @ralph_vonholst
Thank you for the bright side. I usually look for the good news where I can find it.
I missed that this morning I guess - it was so dark on my feed.
“Thousands of coronavirus tests performed in low-income communities of color around New York City showed rates of infection much higher than the city average, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.”
Not just New York but around the country" communities of color " I’ve said this once and I will say it again being that’s the circumsatnce equaled another reason of slow response.
I was really glad to read it. When they talk about manufacturing and distribution problems I say pffft! That we can work with. It’s when I read about the obstacles to working with corona viruses that I bite my nails and think about what two years of this will feel like.
Yeah I agree. That doesn’t really bother me either. Just knowing there is an effective vaccine would make a huge difference in people’s outlooks. But I’m still thinking we have 2 years of this to go. I so hope not.
Another sign of the times
41% ( the highest incidence reported in this study) is still far below the 70% infection rate theoretically required for “herd immunity”.
Poor neighborhoods in NY have paid a terrible, terrible price, but even that is not enough to forestall a second wave. It’s going to take a vaccine to beat this thing.
The two year thing makes me a little crazy, not to mention when they talk about three. But if they can get it done by the Fall or Winter of this year, then I have hope we may get out sometime in 2021. And that would be a big yay for us.
I do think, when they begin to distribute, minorities in zip codes like those in the Bronx should be included in the high risk groups. That’s not the American way. Putting the urban poor first isn’t how we do things, but I think it’s important – to them first of all, because they are suffering the most – but to all of us. We will end this disease quickest by stamping it out where it’s thriving most strongly.
And the essential workers have to be the first of the first. That’s already been said, but I don’t want that to be lip service like safety measures in the workplace are turning out to be.
Aren’t they saying that they were infected but are now presumably over it?