Thread by @andylocal

More homeless-shelter Covid horrors:

At a shelter in College Point Queens, 4 women w/Covid are being held in 'isolation room' w/ only 3 mattresses on floor maybe a foot apart.

‘I will sleep in the swivel chair,’ said Alison Gibney, the unlucky 4th. [1/3]

This is after @NYCDHS said that cramming 11 covid patients in 1 room w/a few mattresses on floor in a different shelter was an ‘isolated incident.’
(Here’s that story [2/3]
nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyr…

.@NYCDHS insists it has hundreds of open hotel beds.

But Ms. Gibney (@thatauldone) says the women in her room -- including one who's been there 3 days -- were told there was a wait for hotel rooms.

Asking DHS to explain this other isolated incident and will report back. [3/3]

Update from Ms. Gibney: '5 women in here now. They are removing the mattresses.'

Still no word from @NYCDHS. [4/3]

Ms. Gibney says shelter workers told her they were removing mattresses *because DHS said it was illegal to put mattresses on the floor.*

5 women w Covid
4 swivel chairs
1 small windowless room. [5/3]

A 6th woman has been added to the 'isolation' room, Ms. Gibney reports.

"I'd be surprised if we don't come up with our own variant."

I feel like I am live-tweeting a dumpster fire.

The women with Covid in the ‘isolation’ room at WestHab shelter in Queens are finally being transferred to hotels. Soon to be down to 2 people, Ms. Gibney reports.

The last 2 women in the isolation room – including 1 who said she slept last nite on bare floor wrapped in some of these clothes the shelter lends to clients for job interviews, because they wouldn’t let her get blanket from storage -- are being transferred to hotels.