The ‘ratpocalypse’ isn’t nigh, according to service call data
Rat-related calls in New York City went down during COVID-19 lockdowns
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Without daily buffets of restaurant garbage, people worried that starving rats would take to the streets during COVID-19 lockdowns. But rats aren’t so simple.
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