Overview
- Is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in the primary U.S. epicenter
- Uses sophisticated methods from ecosystem analysis and epidemiology to study the sociogeographic diffusion of COVID-19, adapted directly from methods developed with the master geographer Peter Gould to analyze the spread of the AIDS pandemic. Nobody else has applied these methods to COVID-19
- Makes explicit the long timeline of policies that greatly amplified the catastrophe in New York City and provides the context for the high mortality rates in communities of color
- Further relates the pandemic to agribusiness and land use policies
- Is an exemplary study in health disparities
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- CoViD-19 and Race/Ethnicity
- epicenter of CoViD-19
- COVID-19 pandemic and New York City
- CoViD-19 and Community Weathering
- social epidemiology of COVID-19
- CoViD-19 and History of NYC Public Policies
- racial and ethnic health disparities
- CoViD-19 and the NYC 1970s Fire Epidemic
- CoViD-19 and Housing
- CoViD-19, Premature Mortality, and Diabetes Mortality
- CoViD-19, the Bronx, and Manhattan
- CoViD-19 and Segregation
- County-to-County Spread of CoViD-19
- class oppression
- health equity
- race and pandemics
- socioeconomics
- COVID-19 and public health
- community health
About this book
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
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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: COVID-19 in New York City
Book Subtitle: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
Authors: Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59624-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59623-1Published: 11 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59624-8Published: 10 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 77
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epidemiology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Community & Population Ecology