Antibody rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are double those of others, new estimates show.
At a coronavirus testing site in Harlem last year.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
April 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
New York City health officials estimate that nearly a quarter of adult New Yorkers were infected with the coronavirus during the catastrophic wave of last spring, and that the toll was even higher among Black and Hispanic residents.
The estimates, based on antibody test results for more than 45,000 city residents last year, suggest that Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were twice as likely as white New Yorkers to have had antibodies to the coronavirus evidence of prior infection.
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