COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

itztime said

So what about the homeless, havent been hearing too much concerning the infection rates with them, maybe a blurb or two. According to this articles two cities were chosen by Quest and out of nearly 700 hundred in Jacksonville all tested negative. The total number for Phoenix was not given in the article.

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/n...virus/77-98121022-19f9-41bb-a83a-64ffdce29a7d

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part of the reason is because the term "homeless" isn't really useful. For about 20 years now - actually closer to 30 - the conception of 'homelessness' has evolved beyond some substance-addled man under an overpass, sleeping on cardboard. People and families living in vehicles, or with friends or relatives or moving from shelters or on the streets in places that aren't accessed, pockets of relative quiet and anonymity.

So, methodologically - when it comes to science and writing articles - the term 'homeless' isn't nearly as monolithic as it is in, say, the newspaper or broadcast world or in the minds of most people as they tend to think of the homeless in one way.

The reality is that the *actual* homeless that resembles *that* type of homelessness has becoming increasingly a smaller slice of the 'homeless' pie