- It's a dense city, among the densest in the Commonwealth.

We have lots of crowded housing conditions in the city.

And so there are lots of crowded conditions because of the housing shortage and because of the cost of renting.

You could easily have in a three bedroom apartment, three separate families living one in each of the bedrooms.

So our residents not just live in crowded conditions.

They go to work in crowded conditions.

They don't drive to work in a automobile by themselves.

They tend to take crowded public transportation to go to work.

And then where they work are often crowded conditions.

They work in these essential businesses like food manufacturing facilities, as hospital orderlies, in grocery stores.

So they live in crowded conditions.

They travel to work in crowded conditions and they work in crowded conditions.

And all of that is a recipe for a dramatic spread of an airborne virus like this.