{"id":7494,"date":"2020-06-11T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:30:03","slug":"addressing-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-description-adaptation-and-early-findings-of-a-multiagency-response-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/addressing-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-description-adaptation-and-early-findings-of-a-multiagency-response-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing COVID-19 Among People Experiencing Homelessness: Description, Adaptation, and Early Findings of a Multiagency Response in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In March 2020, Boston implemented a citywide COVID-19 care model for people experiencing homelessness. During the first 6 weeks of operation, 429 of 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">297 (33%) people\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tested\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were positive for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">O<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f these, 395 people were experiencing homelessness at the time of testing, representing about 10% of the homeless adult population in Boston.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Personnel adapted the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">care\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">model during the third week of operations when a large shelter outbreak of COVID-19 with a high proportion of asymptomatic infections\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">occurred. Their experience\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">illustrated the need to shift from symptom-based screening\u00a0orcontact\u00a0tracing to u<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">niversal testing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Baggett et al. (June 9, 2020).\u00a0 Addressing COVID-19 Among People Experiencing Homelessness: Description, Adaptation, and Early Findings of a Multiagency Response in Boston. Public Health Reports. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0033354920936227\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0033354920936227<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2020, Boston implemented a citywide COVID-19 care model for people experiencing homelessness. During the first 6 weeks of operation, 429 of 1,297 (33%) people\u00a0tested\u00a0were positive for\u00a0SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0Of these, 395 people were experiencing homelessness at the time of testing, representing about 10% of the homeless adult population in Boston.\u00a0Personnel adapted the\u00a0care\u00a0model during the third week&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/addressing-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-description-adaptation-and-early-findings-of-a-multiagency-response-in-boston\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}