WhenCOVID-19first began spreading around the world, and cities went into lockdown, many people joked that keeping couples cooped up in their homes would lead to a baby boom. Instead, the opposite happened:a baby bust. Nine months into the pandemic data confirmed such an event did not occur...
because we do need to prioritize who we reach out to,” says Charlotte Kinzley, manager of Homeless and Highly Mobile Student Services forMinneapolis Public Schools. “Experiencing homelessness is always hard, but it doesn’t affect all kids the same way. If a child hasn’t been at school ...
"Well, they're not even looking at it every year." I would think yearly, at least, they would review it. I could see makin' a mistake after a few months, but not three years of a mistake. And then they blamed it on COVID. They blamed...
I would like to live in one of the COVID hotels. Walk me through the process of finding a room there.These hotels are offered for homeless individuals who are at risk for COVID-19 (elderly, people with a certain number of underlying health conditions, etc.). The first step to see if...
The current government COVID-19 stimulus, under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), has enhanced the child tax credit in value and has extended it to cover children whose families had the lowest incomes by divorcing the credit from the earnings requirement (Jaffe, 2021). Under these ...
we still have only limited ideas about how to abate the harms of drugs. It is also a failure of knowledge. One can easily find out how many people died of Covid-19 last week, but we still have only estimates of how many people died of drug overdoses last year. And of course, it...
Research dating back to before the COVID-19 pandemic also shows that about 19% of adults in the U.S. havefour or more chronic illnesses. If you have even one chronic illness, you can imagine how stressful four must be. And about 12% of the U.S. populationlives in poverty, the epito...
41, 42 Risk factors for infection with SARS-CoV-2 and a severe course of COVID-19 include severe mental illness, alcohol or drug misuse, and homelessness, all of which are associated with other risk factors such as comorbid physical conditions.43, 44, 45 People with mental disorders are ...
(prior to the Covid-19 pandemic). Staff contacted potential participants directly by phone and in physical meetings, as well as contacting services relevant for recruitment of additional participants (e.g., general practitioners, home nursing, low threshold services where no formal referral is ...
COVID-19 was responsible for plunging roughly 100 million more people into extreme poverty, according to the World Bank. Poverty and Children The impact of poverty on children is substantial. Children who grow up in poverty typically suffer from severe and frequent health problems. Infants born in...