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Coronavirus could hit homeless hard, and that could hit everyone hard

  • Written by Michael Cousineau, Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
Homeless people at the 42nd Street and Bryant Park subway station in New York City, March 9, 2020.Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images

As the number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, continues to grow, the nation is on edge. Doctors and scientists do not know what percentage of the general population has been infected...

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