The uncounted: People who are homeless are invisible victims of Covid-19 People who are homeless make shelters on the sidewalk in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles in March 2020.
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LOS ANGELES They are the invisible victims of Covid-19, marginalized not just in life, but also in death.
Despite the extraordinarily detailed statistics that parse the ages, races, and comorbidities of the nation’s more than 500,000 Covid deaths, no one seems to have any idea how many homeless people have died.
One attempt to track all U.S. Covid-19 homeless deaths through official records turned up just 373. “It’s absolutely a vast undercount,” said Katherine Cavanaugh, a consumer advocate with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. “Housing status is not on any major Covid dashboard.”
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The family of a woman who died shortly after receiving a coronavirus vaccine had a private autopsy performed on her last week because the state did not do one while investigating her death, her daughter said.
Drene Keyes, a 58-year-old Gloucester resident who died following a Pfizer shot, was buried Friday. Lisa Jones, Keyesâ daughter, said they are waiting for the results from their own investigation, an expense they hope will shed light on her death and bring them closure. It was not certain whether the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner would incorporate the findings into the stateâs cause of death analysis, she said.