COVID-19 in New York City
An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
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Beschreibung
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.
- Topics covered within the chapters include:
- Premature DeathRate Geography in New York City: Implications for COVID-19
- NYC COVID Markers at the ZIP Code Level
- Prospero's New Castles: COVID Infection and Premature Mortality in the NY Metro Region
- Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention
- Conclusion: Scales of Time in Disasters
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.
Topics covered within the chapters include:- Premature Death Rate Geography in New York City: Implications for COVID-19
- NYC COVID Markers at the ZIP Code Level
- Prospero's New Castles: COVID Infection and Premature Mortality in the NY Metro Region
- Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention
- Conclusion: Scales of Time in Disasters
Is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in the primary U.S. epicenter Uses sophisticated methods from ecosystem analysis and epidemiology to study the sociogeographic diffusion of COVID-19, adapted directly from methods developed with the master geographer Peter Gould to analyze the spread of the AIDS pandemic. Nobody else has applied these methods to COVID-19 Makes explicit the long timeline of policies that greatly amplified the catastrophe in New York City and provides the context for the high mortality rates in communities of color Further relates the pandemic to agribusiness and land use policies Is an exemplary study in health disparities
Autor*in
Deborah Wallace
Themen in »COVID-19 in New York City«
CoViD-19 and Race/Ethnicity epicenter of CoViD-19 COVID-19 pandemic and New York City CoViD-19 and Community Weathering social epidemiology of COVID-19 CoViD-19 and History of NYC Public Policies racial and ethnic health disparities CoViD-19 and the NYC 1970s Fire Epidemic CoViD-19 and Housing CoViD-19, Premature Mortality, and Diabetes Mortality CoViD-19, the Bronx, and Manhattan CoViD-19 and Segregation County-to-County Spread of CoViD-19 class oppression health equity