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Homeless patients with COVID-19 often go back to life on the streets after hospital care, but there's a better way

  • Written by J. Robin Moon, Adjunct Associate Professor, City University of New York
imageUnion Square in Manhattan, where many of New York City's homeless live. Noam Galai via Getty Images

In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been steadily decreasing since 2007, in the past two years it has started to increase. For New York City, even before COVID-19, 2020 was already turning...

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