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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Voucher program makes healthy eating easier for food-insecure people
Diane Daniel, American Heart Association News
March 9, 2021
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As soon as Joseph Angelo enrolled in Vouchers 4 Veggies, he started to replace processed foods with fruits and vegetables. There were times when I d been eating healthier, but I d really fallen into comfort food like cookies, ice cream, anything with a processed sugar high, said Angelo, who has Type 2 diabetes. The nice thing about the vouchers is they re very specific – only for fruits and vegetables and nothing processed.
The San Francisco resident is unemployed and on a tight budget. It can be easy to rationalize something processed over healthier choices, he said. Like if I m looking at a bag of cookies for $2.50 or apples for $2.50, I might think the cookies are a better value.