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Covid-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression

Covid-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression

Wallace, Deborah
Wallace, Rodrick

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Public Health

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030596230
ISBN13: 9783030596231
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 11 2020
Pages: 77
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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