It’s Easy, But Wrong, to Blame the Subway for the Coronavirus Pandemic

A draft paper by an MIT economist claims the New York City subway was the “major disseminator” of coronavirus. If only it were that simple. Snap Getty Images
At midnight on Monday Morning, MIT health economist Jeffrey Harris posted an article claiming the New York City subway “was a major disseminator—if not the principal transmission vehicle—of coronavirus infection” that has killed upwards of 10,000 people. By Wednesday, the article started to make rounds among the New York media, sparking a d…

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