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COVID-19 in New York City : an ecology of race and class oppression / Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace.

9783030596248 (electronic book)
3030596249 (electronic book)
9783030596231 (paperback)
3030596230 (paperback)

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xi, 77 pages) : some illustrations (chiefly color)

10.1007/978-3-030-59624-8 doi

RA650.5

614.4/27471

This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York City spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. The context of epicenter formation determined the rapid, extreme rise of NYC case and mortality rates. Decades of public policies destructive of poor neighborhoods of color heavily determined the spread within the City. Premature mortality rates revealed the "weathering" of policy-targeted communities: accelerated aging due to chronic stress. COVID attacks the elderly more severely than those under the age of 60. Communities with high proportions of prematurely aged residents proved fertile ground for COVID illness and mortality. The very public policies that created swaths of white wealth across much of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn destroyed the human diversity needed to ride out crises.

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