Table 3.
Ten highest Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality risk areas in highly populated counties (4th quartile).
| Location | Observed Counts | Expected Counts | Connectivity Index |
PM25 (u/gml) | Poverty (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronx, NY | 4912 | 810 | Next to airport | 11.7 | 29.1 | |
| McKinley, NM | 243 | 41 | Crossed by a highway | 3.0 | 36 | |
| Queens, NY | 7224 | 1295 | Airport | 11.2 | 13 | |
| Kings, NY | 7290 | 1465 | Next to airport | 11.5 | 21.1 | |
| Essex, NJ | 2116 | 447 | Airport | 11.2 | 16.4 | |
| Passaic, NJ | 1245 | 284 | Next to airport | 9.6 | 16.7 | |
| Union, NJ | 1351 | 312 | Next to airport | 11.4 | 9.8 | |
| Richmond, NY | 1083 | 267 | Next to airport | 11.3 | 12.8 | |
| Hudson, NJ | 1508 | 377 | Next to airport | 12.3 | 16.3 | |
| Bergen, NJ | 2035 | 524 | Next to airport | 11.3 | 7 | |
| Location | ICU Per 100,000 | White (%) | Black (%) | Other Races (%) | Latino (%) | RR CI: [2.5%, 97.5%] |
| Bronx, NY | 19.1 | 21.3 | 34.1 | 44.6 | 55.9 | 6.07 [5.90, 6.24] |
| McKinley, NM | 35.7 | 15 | 0.7 | 84.3 | 14.3 | 5.85 [5.13, 6.61] |
| Queens, NY | 6.4 | 39 | 18.3 | 42.7 | 28 | 5.58 [5.45, 5.71] |
| Kings, NY | 10.8 | 43.5 | 32.6 | 23.9 | 19.2 | 4.98 [4.86, 5.09] |
| Essex, NJ | 28.5 | 42.1 | 39.8 | 18.1 | 22.7 | 4.74 [4.54, 4.94] |
| Passaic, NJ | 10.5 | 62.2 | 11.4 | 26.4 | 40.9 | 4.39 [4.15, 4.63] |
| Union, NJ | 13.9 | 56.2 | 21.2 | 22.6 | 31.1 | 4.33 [4.11, 4.57] |
| Richmond, NY | 15.2 | 74.3 | 10.2 | 15.5 | 18.3 | 4.06 [3.82, 4.3] |
| Hudson, NJ | 13.3 | 55.1 | 12.4 | 32.5 | 43.2 | 4.0 [3.80, 4.21] |
| Bergen, NJ | 13.1 | 71.4 | 6.0 | 22.6 | 19.4 | 3.88 [3.72, 4.05] |