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Coronavirus hasn’t devastated California’s homeless population as many feared
ktla ^ | 08/16/2020

Posted on 08/16/2020 3:47:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin

When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S. this year, public health officials and advocates for the homeless...

... scrambled to move people into hotel rooms, thinned out crowded shelters and moved tents into designated spots at sanctioned outdoor camps.

[R]esearchers don’t know why there appear to be so few outbreaks among the homeless.

More than 200 of an estimated 8,000 homeless people in San Francisco have tested positive for the virus, and half came from an outbreak at a homeless shelter in April. One homeless person is among the city’s 69 deaths.

In other places with large homeless populations, the numbers are similarly low. In King County, which includes Seattle, more than 400 of an estimated 12,000 homeless residents have been diagnosed. In Los Angeles County, more than 1,200 of an estimated 66,000 homeless people have been diagnosed.

It’s slightly higher in Maricopa County... where nearly 500 of an estimated 7,400 homeless people have tested positive, including nine who died.

Health experts say the numbers don’t indicate how widespread the disease is or how it might play out long term. It’s unknown how many people have died of conditions indirectly related to the virus. While the coronavirus may dissipate more easily outdoors than indoors, living outside has its own risks.

With public libraries and other places closed, homeless people say they’re short on food and water, restrooms and cash. In San Francisco, 50 homeless people died over an eight-week period in April and May — twice the usual rate...

The rates at which homeless people have tested positive ...are all over the place...

Surveillance testing of more than 10,000 people at shelters and encampments nationwide has resulted in a rate just over 8%. But...over 200 testing events of homeless residents in five cities showed rates ranging from 0 to 66%.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: bums; calif; chinavirus; chinesevirus; homeless; vagrancy; vagrants; wuhanflu
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To: null and void

I think we will be approaching herd immunity soon. It’s likely that this virus will kill 300 thousand Americans. Maybe a little less. A little more. 0.1% of 330 Americans equal to 330,000.


41 posted on 08/16/2020 5:06:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RoosterRedux

Probably a prolonged diet of roasted rodents and reptiles washed down with cheap hooch while smoking Lucky Strikes.


42 posted on 08/16/2020 5:07:51 PM PDT by Robocop5626
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think that’s a fair guess.

The data has been so politically corrupted our grandchildren may never know the real toll...


43 posted on 08/16/2020 5:09:49 PM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: PGalt

yup


44 posted on 08/16/2020 5:10:46 PM PDT by knarf
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To: Vendome

Because they don’t watch TV and don’t know they role in the planedemic


45 posted on 08/16/2020 5:11:28 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Robocop5626

LSMFT


46 posted on 08/16/2020 5:12:57 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Any info from China about the virus was either nonexistent or greatly exaggerated.

They held back the real data on virus, and they leaked videos portraying it’s exaggerated devastation.

It doesn’t matter where in China the virus originated, once it was in place the CCP used it as biological warfare, letting it spread to the rest of the world and then sending out false information and withholding their true data about their experiences with it.

IMO, this is an act of warfare.


47 posted on 08/16/2020 5:24:49 PM PDT by EarlyBird (ThereÂ’s a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: null and void

Harbor Freight virus after all.


48 posted on 08/16/2020 5:37:19 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine. Yeah)
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To: BenLurkin

I think it’s devastating the crazy cat lady community - which is why we are hearing so much screaming for more lockdowns.


49 posted on 08/16/2020 5:40:06 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: BenLurkin

Wellll, ain’t nobody wanting to walk under the freeways where they all live in their filth except for once a week when we pay for the hazard guys to clean it for a couple hours. So they don’t really have that much exposure.


50 posted on 08/16/2020 5:42:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BenLurkin

‘Rona has done its duty and a clear side effect that will most likely remove Trump is mail in vote.


51 posted on 08/16/2020 5:55:17 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: null and void; All

I guess living in your own filth makes you immune to a lot of germy things?

I’m excited for the days when the Socialist Democrats have us ALL living under bridges and out of shopping carts!

*SNORT*


52 posted on 08/16/2020 6:32:28 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: BenLurkin

In our sanitized world, few build up their immune system. Those on the street, however ...

Love, Pepto


53 posted on 08/16/2020 6:47:52 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: BenLurkin

They probably have killer immune systems from all the practice they get.


54 posted on 08/16/2020 6:57:11 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: null and void
Soooooo, I guess it isn't anywhere near as deadly as the creators intended. Darned near everything that comes from that benighted nation is junk, and doesn't last very long...

'Made in China' - NOT a big selling point.

55 posted on 08/16/2020 8:26:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (If YOU live in a looted burned out America hellhole, YOU have a democrat mayor.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I sometimes feel like I am the only one who knows that we are being conned in a big way. Everyone is acting as if getting COVID is going to kill them. 1 dead homeless person out of 200 diagnosed is .5% fatality rate.


56 posted on 08/17/2020 12:59:33 AM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: CaptainK

That’s why I opted to quit after the Covid is gone....no sense leaving myself vulnerable...
Has to be some science showing nicotine being an antiviral - many who manage to quit seem to end up with more colds during the first year than they had in the previous 5 or more.


57 posted on 08/17/2020 3:07:17 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: BenLurkin

The singular reason is that they - the homeless - are outdoors more often, or always, and less cooped up with others in close quarters. The main route of infection is (a) close contact with an infected person in close quarters and (b) for some period of time - minimum of ten minutes.

In close quarters indoors a centimeter of air is recirculated in the same space many times, allowing for more than the mere passing of infected droplets, but the repeat of that and by that repetition increasing an initial viral load.

I thought one of the most stupid things some governors did was when many of them closed parks. I think infection rates would have been less if parks had stayed open and people were encouraged to get out of the house and go take walks in their parks.

The “homeless” have that advantage year round.


58 posted on 08/17/2020 5:48:36 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: trebb

I read nicotine appears to prevent the virus from penetrating into the cell.

That’s the theory.


59 posted on 08/17/2020 7:39:22 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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