The survey also found that across the state, around one in 20 said the virus has infected someone in their house.
There are 282,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across New York state, with 158,000 in New York City, according to Johns HopkinsA third of New York state households include someone who has been laid off as a result of COVID-19, the results showed. About three-quarters of those polled said New York cannot restart its economy without widespread testing.has had a tremendously detrimental effect on New York's workforce—upstate and downstate—is a gross understatement," Greenberg said.
"Nineteen percent of voters have themselves been laid off and another 13 percent say someone in their household has been laid off. While the layoffs have hit upstate and downstate nearly the same, 48 percent of Latino voters say that they and/or someone in their household has been laid off, compared to 30 percent of both white and black voters affected by layoffs," Greenberg added.
"More than half of downstate voters and 41 percent of upstaters live in a household with at least one person working from home who usually works outside the house."
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