An estimated 550,000 people to homeless on any given night in the US. As #Coronavirus spreads, homeless people and their advocates are preparing for an outbreak in a population more susceptible to illness and with no way to isolate or recover at home. google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…
“Shelters and healthcare providers from Los Angeles to Boston are attempting to erect quarantine zones and purchase protective gear to stop the virus from spreading to the roughly 1% of Americans who are homeless at some point in a given year.” #COVIDー19
"In a shelter system that is already bursting at the seams, the ability to isolate and quarantine people and families is going to be very difficult and very expensive," said Aine Duggan, president of homeless advocacy group Partnership for the Homeless in New York. #Coronavirus
New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C. have the highest rates of men, women and children in shelters, while West Coast cities have the largest overall number of homeless people, according to a White House report from last September.
About 65% of homeless people, many of them children, sleep in shelters and roughly 35% live on the streets. 
Homeless people also suffer disproportionately from chronic health disorders, including heart and lung disease as well as diabetes, that make them uniquely vulnerable to respiratory viral infections like #COVID-19, Gaeta said.
"Somebody who gets this and is alone on the streets will really suffer," said Union Rescue Mission Chief Executive Officer Andy Bales.
#COVIDー19 #CoronavirusPandemic
#COVIDー19 #CoronavirusPandemic
“While there is no indication the virus has reached homeless shelters or encampments, it has already started to curtail the number of volunteers at food banks and shelters in Texas, New York and elsewhere.” #CoronavirusPandemic
