In an April 16 letter to the New York congressional delegation, the MTA chairman acknowledged 68 deaths among more than 2,400 subway and bus workers who had tested positive.“ Another 4,400 are on home quarantine and thousands more are calling out sick,” said the letter. With 40,000 front-line transit workers, that would come to 600 coronavirus cases per 10,000, more than three times the rate of 180 per 10,000 reported in East Elmhurst, the most affected hotspot in my study.
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