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Old May 1, 2020, 1:15 pm
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
In Queens and Brooklyn there seems to be a lot more, frequent intergenerational living and other such exposure inside homes than there is in much of Manhattan. Could it be that people living in Manhattan tended to be somewhat less likely to be obese than people in the other boroughs, and therefore Manhattan dwellers tend to have less lifestyle-related underlying health problems as a factor in this virus situation than those dwelling in the outer boroughs?

Possibly but I suspect it is also because there are a lot more people that can work at home or walk to work in Manhattan and more people who have essential jobs they need to do at some site and have to ride mass transit to get to it. Staten Island has a lot of cases per person and again, I think that is due to essential workers taking mass transit.
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