At one of the largest homeless shelters in San Francisco, California, 70 people tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said.
"This is an urgent public health emergency," said Dr. Colette Auerswald, faculty member at the School of Public Health at Berkeley."This is not rocket science ... we have the evidence now, it is not a mystery that folks that are experiencing homelessness are at a higher risk at being infected, high risk of becoming severely ill and of dying."
The homeless population in San Francisco has been on the rise almost every year since 2005, according to the City and County of San Francisco'sA man wearing a face mask directs the homeless for food donations, amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease , outside the Glide Memorial Methodist church in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, March 20, 2020.
A man wearing a face mask directs the homeless for food donations, amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease , outside the Glide Memorial Methodist church in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, March 20, 2020.Across the city there are about 10 shelters with a little over 1,200 shelter beds for adults over the age of 18, according to the city's"I am very concerned about the city's planning around group sheltering of people," said Dr. Rupa Marya.
Marya said there must be over 34,000 hotel rooms in the city of San Francisco and can"guarantee" that are not all in use during this time. Request for comment from Breed's office on their efforts with the homeless population prior to the coronavirus outbreak at MSC South was not immediate received.in San Francisco were tested positive for the coronavirus and 13 died.
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