Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a New York Times article showing how the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City is hitting low-income neighborhoods the hardest.

Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in Manhattan, said the numbers were most likely because many immigrants and low-income residents live with large families in small apartments and cannot isolate at home.

 

“I think unfortunately this is showing how devastating that can be,” Dr. Justman said.

Read the full article in the New York Times

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