and therefore more safely shelter in place," said Ingrid Gould Ellen, a faculty director at the Furman Center, who worked on the new analysis.
In New York neighborhoods with the highest COVID-19 infection rates, an average of 28.7% of residents had college degrees compared to 47.3% of residents in neighborhoods with the lowest infection rates, the analysis, which examined publicly available information, found.
MORE: Rural hospitals rely on big-city safety nets. Coronavirus means there may be no one to save them "The issue of essential workers is really tricky, but boy, if we’re going to ask people to go to work, we need to figure out ways to protect them," Ellen said.
FurmanCenterNYU It's wrong that this report names 'large shares of Black and Hispanic residents' as 'the strongest neighborhood factor linked to high COVID-19 rates' instead of histories of redlining, environmental racism & other structural inequality. Racism, not race, is the risk factor.
FurmanCenterNYU So the illegal immigrant community that lives in overcrowded areas? Color me surprised
FurmanCenterNYU ABC: 'something something, only dumb and poor people get sick'
FurmanCenterNYU It’s about lifestyle rather than races
FurmanCenterNYU Do infectious diseases recognize your sense of superiority？
FurmanCenterNYU Trumps failure to act early is ethnic/racial cleansing.
FurmanCenterNYU FurmanCenterNYU We are not going to buy this, biased analysis.
FurmanCenterNYU In other words, people with essential jobs who couldn’t telecommute.
FurmanCenterNYU Now the racial narrative....
Covid 19 was most likely in California back last Fall. There was a big flu outbreak then and doctors called it A & B. Now many immune!!!! LA and San Francisco are major hubs to and from China!!!!
FurmanCenterNYU Please just stop with your racial and socioeconomic bullshit. Could a complete study already been done? Or are they pushing some kind of new socialist ideas?
FurmanCenterNYU This corona virus is racist and If you looks at the virus under a microscope you can see MAGMA hats everywhere.
All you news stations copy each other!!! 👎
FurmanCenterNYU Sheltering in place is easier for some than others, experts say. 'Workers with college degrees are far more able to work remotely and therefore more safely shelter in place,' FurmanCenterNYU's Ingrid Gould Ellen says.