Fruitvale, East Oakland have fewer cases of coronavirus than Florida, Georgia

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – Three Oakland zip codes have coronavirus infection rates higher than two of the hardest-hit states in the country, Georgia and Florida, and almost as bad as the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, New York City.

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The three zip codes, 94601, 94621 and 94603, span Fruitvale and East Oakland. There are between 2,472 and 2,594 confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in each zip code, as of Monday.

In Florida, the state with the most cases of coronavirus per capita, that number is slightly lower at 2,445 cases per 100,000 population, according to the CDC. In Georgia, it is at 2,029. In Texas, another state of the hard hit, it is 1,678. All three are lower than the rate of infection seen in Fruitvale and East Oakland.

The New York City subway area, which was devastated by the coronavirus in March and April, has seen about 2,692 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the New York Times – a figure similar to what we see in Oakland.

An Oaklandside editor highlighted the high case rate Twitter last week. Since then, the situation in those three zip codes has only gotten worse.

The San Francisco COVID-19 data, broken down by neighborhood and not zip code, shows the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood with a similarly high transmission time. In other parts of the city, such as the hard-hitting Mission District, the business rate is about half of what it is in East Oakland.

In the hard-hit zip codes of Santa Clara County, in South County and East San Jose, the case rate is substantially lower than Oakland’s – between 600 and about 1,100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

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It comes as no surprise that the Oakland neighborhoods most affected by the pandemic are predominantly Latino and Black, as well as low incomes. In the zip code of 94621 East Oakland, for example, it is $ 15,973 per income earner. Its zip code is 60% Latino, 30% Black and only 4% White.

Residents of Black and Latino make up about 58% of the province’s cases. (An additional 19.5% of Alameda County cases are marked as “unknown race / ethnicity,” making it difficult to know the exact demographic toll the virus has taken.) The disproportionate impact of the virus on communities of color is a pattern that keeps the Bay Area out, too. In California, Latinos make up about 39% of the population but 59% of cases of coronavirus. Only 6% of the state’s population is Black, but 8.3% of coronavirus deaths are Black people.

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California’s business rate as a whole is fourth in the nation, at 1,380 cases per 100,000 people. That number may be a little lower than the reality, because the state is working due to a backlog in reporting coronavirus caused by a data loss.

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