Hasta ahora se han contabilizado en el estado al menos 8,248 casos de covid-19 en menores de edad. Los niños hispanos son los más afectados por la enfermedad, según un estudio del proyecto COVIDKID.

“If you’re wealthy, you’re not taking public transport,” said Elizabeth Pathak, an epidemiologist and president of the Women’s Institute for Independent Social Enquiry. “But if you’re working class in New York City, you’re crowded at every geographic scale of your life..."

“At some point, we’re going to open schools back up. Camps are already clamoring to be permitted to open. And once that starts happening, we need to have surveillance in place so we can catch any uptick in hospitalizations and cases.”

"Pandemics expose the fault lines of inequality in societies as evidenced by economic and spatial patterns of unequal distribution of risk and disease. Consequently, the built and social environments in which families and children live will greatly influence exposure risks."

"Government officials and policy makers should understand the likelihood of capacity challenges," said Jason Salemi, study co-author and associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida.

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