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San Francisco Fights Coronavirus by Finding the Homeless a Home
- City works to provide places to quarantine before an outbreak
- Nation’s homeless are both vulnerable and vectors of infection
A doctor speaks with homeless people about the coronavirus in front of a boarded-up shop in the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco California.
Photographer: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
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They are the dispossessed casualties of San Francisco’s economic boom, 8,000 homeless people living among the gleaming new towers of a rich city.