In Massachusetts, Strengthening Health Systems Is Key to Curbing Pandemic
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PIH connects patients with housing support during pandemic
Posted on Feb 3, 2021 Activists and tenants protest evictions in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood before the COVID-19 pandemic. In many parts of the country, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the ongoing eviction crisis for poor and working class people.
Photo by Zack DeClerck / PIH.
A bus stop. A park bench. A subway car. For the unhoused, shelter is found in many places but safety remains elusive.
“The lives of homeless people are incredibly public,” says Dr. Evan Lyon, a senior technical advisor with PIH’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit. “To be homeless means you’re circulating a lot. You have to go from this place to that place. Maybe panhandle, maybe go to the library, maybe sleep on a train overnight.”
PIH calls for release of incarcerated people, reduction in arrests
Posted on Jan 26, 2021 Incarcerated people inside Cook County Jail post messages in the window and signal to protestors outside in April 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
Across the United States, COVID-19 is running rampant in prisons, jails, and detention centers, putting millions of incarcerated people, families, and communities at risk.
The COVID-19 crisis in America’s prisons disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities due to decades of mass incarceration a systemic injustice that is directly linked to the genocide, slavery, and structural racism that has marked the U.S. for centuries.