‘We don’t get help from anywhere’: Covid exposes inequality in crisis-hit New York neighborhood

Corona, Queens, home to many essential and immigrant workers, had New York's the highest rates of death and infection - and vaccine uptake remains low

A year after New York City became the center of the global Covid-19 outbreak, the neighborhood considered at the time to be the epicenter of the epicenter" of the pandemic remains in crisis - laying bare many of the economic fault lines exposed by the coronavirus.

Corona, Queens, a welcoming enclave for many of the city's undocumented immigrants and home to many of the essential" workers who kept New York running during the pandemic's worst days, has had the highest number of infections and deaths in the city - and now has one of the lowest percentages of people vaccinated.