Officials who have tested roughly 3,300 residents in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park say they have identified 228 cases of Covid-19—the equivalent of a 6.9% infection rate
New York City officials are pledging to test as many Sunset Park residents as possible for the new coronavirus after finding a significant increase in cases in the Brooklyn neighborhood.and hovered around 1% for much of July and August. In the past two weeks, however, officials who have tested roughly 3,300 residents in Sunset Park say they have identified 228 Covid-19 cases—the equivalent of a 6.9% infection rate.
Health officials still aren’t sure what is driving the rise in cases, and acknowledge that the recent testing was conducted over a limited period. They didn’t provide details about the breakdown of positive cases among different age and demographic groups. Still, the results were enough of a red flag that officials say they will“When we see any kind of trend that’s unusual, that’s when we double down,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press briefing Wednesday.
Sunset Park, in south Brooklyn, lies between Park Slope, Bay Ridge and Borough Park. It was home to about 132,000 residents in 2018 with a median household income of $63,490, compared with the citywide average that year of $64,850, according to New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. It has both a bustling Chinatown and streets lined with taquerias and Latin American grocery stores.
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