Anonymous ID: cdcd95 April 12, 2020, 6:28 p.m. No.8773851   🗄️.is 🔗kun

From the Daily Mail:

 

70 people in San Francisco homeless shelter contract coronavirus

 

In the biggest outbreak at a homeless shelter in California to date, San Francisco's mayor announced Friday that 70 people have tested positive for the coronavirus, infuriating advocates who had sought more aggressive action to protect homeless people.

 

Mayor London Breed said that the outbreak involving 68 residents and two shelter staff was expected.

'We knew that those had the potential of being hot spots, so we have been preparing for that,' Breed said of the homeless shelters. 'We were on top of it.'

 

The news angered homeless advocates and members of the Board of Supervisors who have been pleading with her administration to commandeer empty hotel rooms and quickly move homeless people from streets and shelters into them.

'This is terrible, devastating and preventable,' said Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the district, on Twitter. 'We´ve been yelling and screaming for a month to get people out of these crowded shelters and protect people.'

For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.

 

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