Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Neighborhood-level disparities and subway utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City

  • Daniel Carrión,
  • Elena Colicino,
  • Nicolo Foppa Pedretti,
  • Kodi B. Arfer,
  • Johnathan Rush,
  • Nicholas DeFelice,
  • Allan C. Just

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24088-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Neighborhood disadvantage and capacity to socially distance have been discussed as factors involved in COVID-19 disparities. Here, the authors develop an inequity index on zip code-level infections, and examine differences in neighborhood utilization of subways in New York City.