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The Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and New York City

Surfing the Second Wave

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Authors:
  1. Deborah Wallace

    1. Independent Disease Ecologist, New York, USA

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  2. Rodrick Wallace

    1. The New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA

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  • Documents the stunning rapidity of second-wave COVID-19 spread over NYS counties and NYC ZIP Code areas
  • Reveals the devastating effect of President Trump on COVID-19 infection rates
  • Strategizes development of pandemic response plans that communities will accept

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Sixty-Two Counties of New York State

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Second COVID Wave Washes Over New York State

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 9-27

  4. Socioeconomic/Demographic Context of Big Apple’s Four Main Boroughs

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 29-37

  5. The Second Wave Storm-Surges Across New York City

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 39-55

  6. Discussion of County Data from the Second Wave of COVID-19

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 57-65

  7. Parsing Meaning from the 152 ZIP Code Data

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 67-78

  8. What Is to Be Done?

    • Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
    Pages 79-90

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 91-92
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About this book

As a follow-up to COVID-19 in New York City: an Ecology of Race and Class Oppression, which showed that decades of discriminatory public policies shaped the Bronx into the epicenter of the first wave of COVID-19, this book examines the build up to the crest and subsequent ebbing of the second wave of COVID-19 across the 62 counties of New York State (NYS) and 152 ZIP Code areas of the four central boroughs of New York City (NYC). Like its predecessor, the sequel examines the vulnerabilities that give rise to spikes in infection rates that form epicenters. Unlike the first wave, NYC was not the epicenter of the second wave; high-incident counties just outside NYS formed an extended initial epicenter and exported COVID-19 to neighboring counties of NYS. 



Rural NYS counties differed significantly from urban ones socioeconomically and in infection rates during the cresting period. Before the crest, no socioeconomic factor was associated with county infection rates; rather, the major associating factor was political and cultural: percent of the 2020 vote garnered by Trump. Rural counties voted heavily for Trump. This association disappeared post-crest by mid-January 2021. In NYC, the Bronx again behaved like a single high-incidence entity, unlike the other three boroughs that had patches of high and low infection incidence. 


Among the topics covered:
  • The Second COVID Wave Washes Over New York State
  • The Second Wave Storm-Surges Across New York City
  • Discussion of County Data from the Second Wave of COVID-19
  • Parsing Meaning From the 152 ZIP Code Data 

The book closes with a prescription for pandemic response planning based on empowered communities and workers interacting with health departments as equals. 



The Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and New York City is a valuableresource 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 will find readership among 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Disease Ecologist, New York, USA

    Deborah Wallace

  • The New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Rodrick Wallace

About the authors

Deborah Wallace, PhD, received her PhD in symbiosis ecology from Columbia University in New York City in 1971. In 1972, she became an environmental studies manager at Consolidated Edison Co. and participated in pioneering environmental impact assessment. She became a manager of biological and public health studies at New York State Power Authority in 1974 and remained there until early 1982. In 1980 she completed a MiniResidency in epidemiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In the mid-1970s, she also founded Public Interest Scientific Consulting Service, which produced impact assessments of massive cuts in fire service in New York City. She also probed the health threats that plastics in fires posed to firefighters and became an expert witness in litigation for plaintiffs in large fires fueled by plastics. From 1985 to 1991, she worked for Barry Commoner at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College. From 1991 to 2010, she tested consumer products andservices for their environmental and health impacts at Consumers Union. She retired in 2010 but continues data analysis, research, and scientific publications. Her first paper was published in 1975, and her last publication, a book, in 2021.
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry in New York City. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in physics from Columbia University, and completed postdoctoral training in the epidemiology of mental disorders at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He worked as a public interest lobbyist, including two decades conducting empirical studies of fire service deployment, and subsequently received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to material on public health and public policy, he has published peer reviewed studies modeling evolutionary process and heterodox economics, as well as many quantitative analyses of institutional and machine cognition. He publishes in the military science literature, and in 2019 received one of the U.K. MoD RUSI Trench Gascoigne Essay Awards.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and New York City

  • Book Subtitle: Surfing the Second Wave

  • Authors: Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88619-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88618-9Published: 18 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88619-6Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2192-3698

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 92

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Epidemiology, Public Health

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