Residents of the Bronx are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than anywhere else in the city.
The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemicFirst light has yet to break in New York City, but at a bus depot in the South Bronx, Wayne Lizardi has already been behind the wheel for hours.Lizardi has shouldered a heavier workload since COVID-19 hit the city.
“Before COVID-19, the Bronx was known as the poorest borough,” New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres told “Nightline.” “It's come to be known as the essential borough.” In the southeast Bronx, community organizer Tanya Fields has cultivated an urban farm where she, along with her six children and neighbors, grow everything from herbs to fruit trees. They even raise chickens.
“I got very, very sick for about three weeks,” she said. “[I had an] unproductive cough, fever of about 101 [degrees], body aches and chills.” In the Southeast Bronx, community organizer Tanya Fields has cultivated an urban farm where she, along with her six children and neighbors, grow everything from herbs to fruit trees.
“As someone who raised my older children on welfare, and by being in a community with other folks who have paved the way, I have been able to gain some things that some of my neighbors have not,” she said. “I’m a college graduate and I fought tooth and nail to raise two children and claw my way to graduate. While I don’t make even $30,000 a year, I am able to provide this to my community.”Even before the pandemic, hunger was no stranger here.
“As a child I would play in the park. I was an admirer of professional wrestling. There's a sense to which the theatricality of professional wrestling reminds me of politics," he said. “It's hardly an accident that the borough that has the worst public health outcomes has the highest rates of infection, morbidity and mortality for COVID-19,” he added.
“From the beginning, we've been crying to get testing in our community. But we did it ourselves. We put on the line a lot of money — the doctors — to do it ourselves,” Tallaj said. “We want to continue for own people, because we are like them. We're immigrants like them.” Wayne Lizardi is a second-generation bus operator, driving the same streets as his father, who immigrated from Puerto Rico.“We were very, very scared,” he said. “There’s no line of defense out there. ... You’re on a bus with 10, 15, 20, 30, 60 people. I felt like I was a sitting duck.”
Wayne Lizardi is a second-generation bus operator, driving the same streets as his father, who immigrated from Puerto Rico.
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