by Jessica Bautista / Adam Smeltz,University of Pennsylvania The coronavirus pandemic is likely to kill more than 3,400 people experiencing homelessness across the United States, according tonew estimates from researchersat Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. Further, the virus ...
We aimed to estimate the avoided deaths and health-care use among people experiencing homelessness during the so-called first wave of COVID-19 in England—ie, the peak of infections occurring between February and May, 2020—and the potential impact of COVID-19 on this population in the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted people experiencing homeless, though estimates remain unknown and highlights a need for more inclusive data.
The disease caused by COVID-19, was characterised as a pandemic on 11th March 2020. Using the European Typology of Homelessness and housing exclusion (ETHOS), created by the European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), it is estimated over 100 million ...
19. Thus, in the current paper, we leveraged qualitative data to examine the implications of the pandemic on service provision at LifeWorks, a large non-profit in Austin, Texas, that offers a comprehensive array of housing and homelessness services (as well as wraparound supportive services) ...
Meaning The number of deaths in San Francisco among people experiencing homelessness increased markedly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with most of the increase associated with overdose deaths rather than COVID-19 itself. Abstract Importance There has been recent media attention on the risk of excess...
Since the onset of the virus, much has changed for those experiencing homelessness and the people that serve them. L.A. has seen more than700 casesof COVID-19 cases within their homeless community, Chicago last reported to have around302 casesin it’s homeless shelter, New York has around...
when homelessness greatly increases the risk of contracting COVID-19. Providing safe temporary housing to individuals affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic and, in the long term, investing in affordable-housing models, could have a significant eff...
People experiencing homelessness urgently need to be recognised as a high risk group for COVIDHistory shows that pandemics rarely impact on the population equally – the 14th century Black Death plague reduced the global population by a third, with the greatest number of deaths occurring among the...
"The association of homelessness with COVID-19 re-infection may be a result of increased exposure to SARS-CoV-2 due to the difficulty of complying with COVID-19 health recommendations, like social distancing and mask usage," said Sagar, MD, also an associate professor of medicine and microbi...