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100 1 _aHarris, Jeffrey E.
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245 1 4 _aThe Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City /
_cJeffrey E. Harris.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w27021
500 _aApril 2020.
520 3 _aNew York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator - if not the principal transmission vehicle - of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in Manhattan - down by over 90 percent at the end of March - correlates strongly with the substantial increase in the doubling time of new cases in this borough. Subway lines with the largest drop in ridership during the second and third weeks of March had the lowest subsequent rates of infection in the zip codes traversed by their routes. Maps of subway station turnstile entries, superimposed upon zip code-level maps of reported coronavirus incidence, are strongly consistent with subway-facilitated disease propagation. Reciprocal seeding of infection appears to be the best explanation for the emergence of a single hotspot in Midtown West in Manhattan.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aI1 - Health
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aI12 - Health Behavior
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aI14 - Health and Inequality
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aI28 - Government Policy
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w27021.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w27021
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w27021
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_cW-PAPER
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