NEW YORK (JTA) — Four heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn have especially high rates of the novel coronavirus, according to data released by this city’s Department of Health.
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The record of positive COVID-19 tests in the five boroughs shows that Borough Park, Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Midwood all have above-average positive test rates. In Borough Park, more than 67% of coronavirus tests have come back positive — the highest rate in Brooklyn and sixth-highest of any Zip code in New York City.
In Crown Heights, 63.4% of tests are positive, while in Williamsburg the figure is 62.5% and in Midwood it is 60.3%. The average positive test rate across the city is 53%.
The five city Zip codes with the highest positive test rates are in Queens, with the Corona neighborhood topping the list at more than 77%. Many of those neighborhoods are home to working-class New Yorkers whose jobs do not allow them to stay home.
Borough Park also has the third-highest raw number of positive tests of any neighborhood in the city with 771, and total tests with 1,146. In both cases, it’s behind only Corona and Elmhurst, adjacent neighborhoods in Queens.
An analysis by The City, a local New York publication, found that testing across neighborhoods has been proportional to their populations. Social distancing has been a particularly stark shift for Hasidic Jews, who make up a significant share of the population in Borough Park, Williamsburg and Crown Heights.
Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, men are accustomed to attending communal prayers three times a day, and social lives revolve around synagogue and lifecycle celebrations like weddings. Haredi families are also larger than average and tend to live in dense neighborhoods in the city.
In some haredi neighborhoods, social distancing measures like school closings came later than in the rest of the city.
Israel is experiencing an even more extreme phenomenon, as more than a third of the total population of the haredi city of Bnei Brak is estimated to have coronavirus, according to the Times of Israel.
It seems these communities are slow to listen to the secular authorities.
Democrat & media murderers called Trump’s suggestion to try hydrox as snake oil. Listen to doctors , science, charts and labs. Oh, what does he know..!
Guess what? It’s working all across the globe, but these demons want dead people, the more to remove our president.
Thank you Dr. Zelenko and others for thinking out of the box.
The only thing that’s more widespread than coronoavirus in the frum neighborhoods of New York is the resulting Chilul Hashem. Unlike the virus, the chilul is not limited by geographic boundaries
Hashem I beg you please save us all!
NOTICE – the normal rational yidden that make up Englewood, Passaic, 5 Towns, Young Israel, YU etc. that took the suggestion of the health experts seriously do not have these percentages. These communities closed their shusl early on (remember the Vaad of NJ) and put into practices safe social distancing.
The haredi community laughed it off and nebach because of Purim we are paying a huge price. Most have now saw the light and are at least trying to do the right thing. However, we still have our nutcase or may we call them arrogant individuals, Rebbes and Rabbis that still do not get it, willing to take chances on lives and not practice social distancing They know better than ALL the doctors put together.
How many lives could have been saved if we just listened to the health experts? Hashem Yerachim
Hey Honest… Trumpsaid it was a flu because Fauci said it was a flu as did other doctors at the time.
The demented DemonRats said NOTHING. except to play in the streets, eat at Mardi Gras and Chinatown despite the virus. Whe Trump mentioned it in State of the Union, that Salem witch ripped it up.. Don’t propagandise… America sees what evil they did.
CNN said it was nothing. Pelosi Schiff never mentioned it. Oh, Pelosi did say to party and fress at outdoor Chinatown fest. All Fake news anchors never said a word. Unless the word was impeachment.
Trump shut Chinese flights and the criminal networks attacked him as xenophobic. Don’t revise recent history . Not gonna work. Now they want to shut down the prez briefings. While his popularity soars… Eat your hearts out..
Zelenko’s meds work. He’s been contacted by WH , Russia:, France, Israel.
Hashem bless Dr. Zelenko.
Just need to mention, the Governors that were vehemently against these off label drugs had a legitimate concern. There are many people, with Lupus for example, that really need this drug on a chronic steady basis. They were afraid of a craze which would make the drug unavailable for them.
The pharma industry is not simply order and get delivery. There are constant lists of drugs that are unavailable for periods. A sudden run on a drug can make it out of stock for weeks and months.
The end of the article should be corrected!
” Israel is experiencing an even more extreme phenomenon, as more than a third of the total population of the haredi city of Bnei Brak is estimated to have coronavirus, according to the Times of Israel”
Actually times of Israel just posted today a correction from Maccabi the source of the statistic
“Ran Saar, CEO of Maccabi, the HMO for one in two Bnei Brak residents, was widely quoted on Thursday telling a Knesset committee that 38 percent of people in the city are infected with coronavirus. But Hadari said that Saar wasn’t giving numbers for the general population of the ultra-Orthodox city, but rather discussing a very different statistic: what percentage of people there who felt unwell and went for a test in recent days actually had coronavirus.
All of the 1,300 people tested, Hadari stressed, had some coronavirus-like symptoms, and many had been referred by family doctors.
Hadari said that his colleague’s analysis was misquoted by many to imply a negative view of Haredim. “It’s amazing that his words have been taken and turned against the Orthodox population,” said Hadari.”