Of the 88.2 million homes with more than one occupant, 30% weren't suitable for isolation, and in total, about 81 million people can't properly quarantine within their units.
"This proportion is particularly high among homes occupied by minority and poor individuals and among apartments, a pattern that mirrors both the high incidence of Covid-19 in those groups and racial discrimination in access to housing that was federal policy until the 1960s and, unfortunately, persists today," the study reads.
The most impacted minority groups were Native Americans and Hispanics, who were two to three times more likely to live in a unit unsuitable for isolating, especially in the Northeast.that found that the virus was far more likely to be spread in South Korea within a household than in public, especially among people aged between 10 and 19 years old.
Both add color to the ongoing debate in the U.S. over when or even if to reopen schools for in-person teaching this fall, with the Trump administration arguing children experience less severe symptoms if they contract Covid-19 and health experts cautioning that they can still spread the virus to adults in their homes.The coronavirus is still spreading uncontrolled in the U.S.
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