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Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 Premature Death Rate Geography in New York City: Implications for COVID-19 -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Methods -- 1.3 Results -- 1.4 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 2 NYC COVID Markers at the ZIP Code Level -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methods -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Brooklyn and Queens -- 2.3.1.1 Percent Positive Swab Tests -- 2.3.1.2 Cases/100,000 -- 2.3.1.3 COVID Mortality Rates Per 100,000 -- 2.3.1.4 COVID Markers and Other Public Health Indicators -- 2.3.2 Manhattan and the Bronx -- 2.3.2.1 Overview

2.3.2.2 Percent Positive -- 2.3.2.3 Case Rates Per 100,000 -- 2.3.2.4 COVID Deaths Per 100,000 -- 2.3.2.5 Differing Public Health Cohesion in Manhattan and the Bronx -- 2.3.3 Public Health of the Four Boroughs -- 2.4 Discussion -- References -- 3 Prospero's New Castles: COVID Infection and Premature Mortality in the NY Metro Region -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The AIDS Syndemic -- 3.3 The COVID-19 Pandemic -- 3.4 Diffusion in a Commuting Field -- 3.5 Toward a National Model -- 3.6 Discussion -- 3.7 Appendix: The Data Set -- References -- 4 Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention

4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Pandemics in Waiting: Neoliberal Land Use Policies -- 4.3 Pandemic Penetrance -- 4.4 Refugia: Failure of the `R0' Model -- 4.5 Discussion -- References -- 5 Conclusion: Scales of Time in Disasters -- 5.1 Futures -- References -- Index