Neighborhoods include Kew Gardens and Far Rockaway in Queens, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and a separate segment of Brooklyn that adds Midwood, Borough Park, and Bensonhurst that fitness officials call the “Ocean Parkway Cluster. “
The six rooms account for 20% of all COVID-19 cases in the city as of September 19, and the fitness branch is involved in the accumulation becoming a more widespread transmission.
“I’m so distressed by COVID in those four neighborhoods by adding the Ocean Parkway domain where I grew up that I went to the synagogue where my brother’s been living lately,” said Dr Mitchell Katz, executive director of NYC Health Hospitals.
Katz said the city that moved without delay faced the rise of leaders of Orthodox Jewish communities in each neighborhood, adding automatic calls in Yiddish and English, trucks circulating in neighborhoods shouting messages and distributing masks, gloves and hands. Disinfectant.
“This virus does not adhere to devout or political lines,” said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a medical collaborator at ABC News. We have noticed that these conditions occur in many other subpopulations that do not adhere to science.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who earlier in the pandemic accused through the Hasidic Jews of unjustly distinguishing them, said that the purpose of not pointing the finger still to teach a vital lesson to the public as the country is on its way to a season where outdoor activities and social estating are fitting in more difficult.
“What we know is a lot of communication, allowing others to wear the mask seamlessly through free distribution, network leaders set a smart example, and many leaders are doing it,” de Blasio said. “If some other people don’t need to help their neighbors, we’ll take stronger action. “
Dr. Katz, who said he had died of coronavirus in Israel this week, appealed privately to Orthodox Jews.
“In the absence of doing the right thing, we will have to be in a lockdown scenario as they did in Israel,” Katz said. “We don’t need that. We need other people to wear masks. We need you to stay apart,” not having giant meetings. “
He added: “There are tactics for us to continue our lives. “
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