Coronavirus: Canada should copy San Francisco's quarantine strategy for the homeless: advocates
SASKATOON -- Advocates say Canada should learn from San Francisco’s approach in allowing homeless people to voluntarily quarantine in repurposed hotels, which includes providing them with behavioural health support. The city’s hotel-based quarantine program -- which offers rooms, as well as medical care and behavioural health support for two weeks -- was safe and highly effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19 in the community, according to a new U.S. study. The findings, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open last week, noted how 81 per cent of people completed the...