[copenja]

In the article he implies these are people who are not working, not commuting, and not travelling. Here are some quotes from the article:

"He said the information shows that those who are hospitalized are predominantly from the downstate area in or around New York City, are not working or traveling and are not essential employees. He also said a majority of the cases in New York City are minorities, with nearly half being African American or Hispanic."

"Cuomo said nearly 84% of the hospitalized cases were people who were not commuting to work through car services, personal cars, public transit or walking. He said a majority of those people were either retired or unemployed. Overall, some 73% of the admissions were people over age 51."

[illumin8]

Have you seen those photos of crowded subway platforms in the early morning? Almost all minorities on their way to gig worker jobs in the city - delivery people, etc. These are the essential workers that are still delivering food and groceries to the rest of NYC that is sheltering in place.

It doesn't surprise me that the rate of infection by those staying home, that are in poor neighborhoods and minorities, is high. How many of those households have an essential worker in their family? How many of them might be living in large multi-generational families where one or more are instacart shoppers, Uber/Lyft drivers, etc?

We need more data before we can really determine if this is surprising or not.

I'll tell you what I thought immediately after seeing those photos: - First reaction: OMG, those people are not social distancing and are putting everyone at risk. - Second reaction: If those essential workers can't deliver food to all the people trapped in their apartments, society would collapse very quickly.