COVID-19 deaths in Canarsie-Flatlands in Brooklyn: 612 deaths per 100,000 residents COVID-19 deaths nationwide: 27 in 100,000 people
Neighborhoods in southeast Queens as well as Brooklyn have the highest death rates from COVID-19 in the city, according to data New York City’s health department made public for the first time on Monday afternoon.
A ZIP Code encompassing Far Rockaway in Queens had the second-highest death rate in the city, with 445 deaths per 100,000 residents, more than double the city average. It, too, encompasses a disproportionate amount of public housing relative to the city, with more than a half-dozen projects spread across it and its neighboring ZIP Code on the eastern end of the Rockaways.
Officials did not directly address the findings of the fatality data on Monday, but have homed in on public housing projects for weeks. The city has set up a number of community-based testing sites around New York City Housing Authority developments, upped its outreach to vulnerable populations and said last week it would distribute 22,000 air conditioners to residents living in public housing, particularly seniors, amid the pandemic.
As the city sets its sights on the first phase of reopening, the new data provides a fresh, albeit grim, reminder of the toll the disease has already had on the city.
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