⁍ More than 68% of people tested positive for antibodies at a clinic in Corona, Queens, while only 56% tested positive at another clinic in Jackson Heights, Queens.
⁍ While these two working-class neighborhoods saw high numbers for their antibody tests, only 13% tested positive for antibodies at a clinic in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
⁍ The data do not reflect how many people in the neighborhoods themselves may have antibodies because some patients in the clinics may not live in the neighborhoods where the clinics are located.

– People in working-class and minority neighborhoods of New York City are overwhelmingly testing positive for antibodies to the deadly virus known as coronavirus, according to new data. But that doesn’t mean they’re immune, the New York Times reports. “When you’re looking at a large population of people and a large percentage of those people are technically immune to a virus, you could start thinking it’ll be almost impossible for the virus to penetrate and for people to get sick,” says a doctor. “We have to be very careful about what kind of advice we’re giving,” he adds. “We can’t tell people to act differently, to not protect themselves, to not wash their hands, to not wear masks.”