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A new study argues that city subways and buses were a “major disseminator” of the coronavirus in the Big Apple.
The paper, by MIT economics professor and doctor Jeffrey Harris, points to a parallel between high ridership “and the quick, rapid rise in infections” in the first 2 weeks of March– when the subways were still loaded with approximately 5 million riders daily– in addition to in between turnstile entries and infection hotspots.
” New york city City’s multitentacled train system was a major disseminator– if not the primary transmission car– of coronavirus infection throughout the preliminary departure of the enormous epidemic,” argues Harris, who works as a physician in Massachusetts.
While the study yields that the data “can not by itself address concern of causation,” Harris states the conditions of a normal subway cars and truck or bus compare with the existing understanding of how the virus spreads.
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