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No surprises here: 55 test positive for coronavirus at San Diego Convention Center shelter (1/) https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/55-test-positive-for-coronavirus-at-san-diego-convention-center-shelter
We are going to see more and more of this as COVID-19 increases across the country. Experts have said for a long time that congregate settings like this are not safe. (2/)
To the extent that outbreaks have been avoided so far in some such large congregate homeless settings has to do in large part IMO with:
1) low community prevalence of COVID-19
2) luck
(3/)
1) low community prevalence of COVID-19
2) luck
(3/)
But as we head into winter with higher COVID-19 rates than yet seen (and still rising) across much of the country, these strategies will increasingly fail — even with symptom screening (note, apparently all cases in this SD outbreak were asymptomatic) and other measures. (4/)
Of course this will all be happening at the same time that hospitals are increasingly overwhelmed. A bad combination. (5/)
Areas should do everything they can to get people—especially those at highest risk for severe disease but really as many people as possible—into safe, private settings. Now is the time. (Well, now is past the time). (End)
Addendum: this also illustrates why homeless people should receive high priority for a covid vaccine.
