Are they wrong? No one is saying that it is unnatural or baffling that people are leaving the city, are they? What are the implications of the data they are reporting on? Do you think it's class warfare to even acknowledge that people who have better economic means have more freedom to react to the pandemic?

Maybe it's class warfare that the poor bear the brunt of the damage the pandemic and quarantine have done, without means to leave, forced to work "essential jobs" to not get evicted and thus more exposed to the virus, and more vulnerable to economic disruptions.

Because they're asserting causality. The wealth of these people is what enables them to leave. That's the point of the article.

Why don’t you have a quick look at the map that they show, and observe that it’s not Manhattan VS Queens or Brooklyn.

It’s some specific regions of Manhattan that are know to have some of the priciest residential real estate.

The title is not clickbait: it’s a very concise representation of the truth.

If they wrote “Manhattan”, that would imply places like Harlem as well, and you can clearly see that almost nobody above, say, 128th St left.

The title is reflective of the article itself, which uses data to show that the wealth of an NYC neighborhood’s inhabitants is on average directly correlated with the extent to which those inhabitants left during the last few months.

Alternatively the article could have “just” listed the boroughs as you suggest, but this would raise the question of why some boroughs emptied out and not others (also why there is visible clustering within those boroughs’ neighborhoods). This is the question the article tries to address.

Because that's what the data says when sorted by wealth? Wealth is a primary driver of many / most aspects of society including covid mortality rate. To ignore this is to abandon valuable tools in both social sciences and medicine. While data can always be manipulated to drive an agenda, I don't see how just naming areas and making no deep dive into the readily available statistics on these areas is helpful.

Comments like yours, especially on a site like this really make me worry that people are ignoring science and data in this country because it does not support their preferred narrative and politics. Anti - vaxxers contributing to a resurgence of measles may have just been the beginning.

"The five ZIP codes with the highest rates of positive tests for the coronavirus — in Corona, Cambria Heights, East Elmhurst, Queens Village, and Jackson Heights — have an average per capita income of $26,708, while residents in the five with the lowest rates — in Lower Manhattan, Tribeca, Battery Park City, and the east side of Midtown — had an average income of $118,166, according to an analysis of New York City data by The Intercept."

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"Diabetes, one of the conditions that appears to put people with Covid-19 at highest risk of becoming severely ill, is also more common both among black and Latino New Yorkers and in low-income neighborhoods throughout the city."

Is the above not useful information?

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nyc-coronavirus-deaths-r...