A coronavirus conundrum: The vast majority of New Yorkers still walking into hospitals with COVID-19 have been sheltering at home and avoiding mass transit..
They aren’t frontline workers. They aren’t riding New York City subways. They aren’t stuck in jails or homeless shelters or other congregate facilities where the disease could spread easily.
“We were thinking that maybe we were going to find a higher percentage of essential employees were getting sick because they were going to work. That this maybe was nurses, doctors, transit workers—that’s not the case,” Cuomo said. Some 83% of new patients are out of work or retired, and aren’t even leaving their home on a daily basis.
On top of that, only 4% of those newly infected said they took public transportation on a daily basis. There were also less surprising statistics. Minorities comprised a disproportionate amount of new cases, reflecting known health disparities.
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