Below are COVID-19 death rates in NYC per 100,000 people in the
population as of last night’s available data:
309 Bronx
297 Queens
285 Latino
264 African American
258 City-wide
254 Queens
253 Brooklyn
231 Borough Park
201 South Williamsburg
For all the negative focus on alleged lack of rule following in
the last two geographic areas, they have lower death rates than most categories
in the city. This either means that the rules do not work and therefore places
that followed rules still have worse numbers. Or, and more likely, lack of
following rules was not worse among Hasidim than in other areas; it was just an
unfair obsession by some forces in politics and in media.
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