the staff of the Ridgewood blog
New York NY it is no surprise to anyone who has ever taken a filthy subway in New York City , that a study from MIT claims that New York City became the American epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic because of the close proximity of its residents in mass transportation.
The paper, by MIT economics professor and physician Jeffrey Harris, claims a parallel between high ridership of the subway system, which packs in up to 5 million passengers a day, “and the rapid, exponential surge in infections” in the first two weeks of March.
“New York City’s multitentacled subway system was a major disseminator — if not the principal transmission vehicle — of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic,” argues Harris, who works as a physician in Massachusetts.
http://web.mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/HarrisJE_WP2_COVID19_NYC_13-Apr-2020.pdf
on the upside, they are finally cleaning it