Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams was in the Crotona section of the Bronx on Friday morning, addressing one of the borough’s long-standing issues, health equity.
In the South Bronx, the poorest urban congressional district in the country, the population suffers high rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, asthma, HIV/AIDS and infant mortality. A few comorbidities including asthma and heart disease led to high COVID hospitalizations and fatalities in the Bronx.
