COVID-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression (SpringerBriefs in Public Health)

La page deprésentation indique : "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 An exemplary study in health disparities, COVID-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression is essential reading for social epidemiologists, public health researchers of health disparities, those in public service tasked with addressing these problems, and infectious disease scientists who focus on spread in human populations of new zoonotic diseases. The brief also should appeal to students in these fields, civil rights scholars, science writers, medical anthropologists and sociologists, medical and public health historians, public health economists, and public policy scientists." La page deprésentation indique : "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 An exemplary study in health disparities, COVID-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression is essential reading for social epidemiologists, public health researchers of health disparities, those in public service tasked with addressing these problems, and infectious disease scientists who focus on spread in human populations of new zoonotic diseases. The brief also should appeal to students in these fields, civil rights scholars, science writers, medical anthropologists and sociologists, medical and public health historians, public health economists, and public policy scientists." Preface 6 References 9 Contents 10 About the Authors 12 1 Premature Death Rate Geography in New York City: Implications for COVID-19 13 1.1 Introduction 13 1.2 Methods 14 1.3 Results 15 1.4 Discussion and Conclusion 20 References 27 2 NYC COVID Markers at the ZIP Code Level 31 2.1 Introduction 31 2.2 Methods 32 2.3 Results 33 2.3.1 Brooklyn and Queens 33 2.3.1.1 Percent Positive Swab Tests 33 2.3.1.2 Cases/100,000 34 2.3.1.3 COVID Mortality Rates Per 100,000 36 2.3.1.4 COVID Markers and Other Public Health Indicators 37 2.3.2 Manhattan and the Bronx 39 2.3.2.1 Overview 39 2.3.2.2 Percent Positive 40 2.3.2.3 Case Rates Per 100,000 41 2.3.2.4 COVID Deaths Per 100,000 42 2.3.2.5 Differing Public Health Cohesion in Manhattan and the Bronx 43 2.3.3 Public Health of the Four Boroughs 45 2.4 Discussion 47 References 55 3 Prospero's New Castles: COVID Infection and Premature Mortality in the NY Metro Region 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 The AIDS Syndemic 58 3.3 The COVID-19 Pandemic 60 3.4 Diffusion in a Commuting Field 62 3.5 Toward a National Model 63 3.6 Discussion 65 3.7 Appendix: The Data Set 66 References 67 4 Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention 68 4.1 Introduction 68 4.2 Pandemics in Waiting: Neoliberal Land Use Policies 69 4.3 Pandemic Penetrance 71 4.4 Refugia: Failure of the `R0' Model 72 4.5 Discussion 74 References 75 5 Conclusion: Scales of Time in Disasters 76 5.1 Futures 76 References 83 Index 85