California fast-tracks plans to house the homeless residents amid the coronavirus outbreak.
by universities in Los Angeles, Pennsylvania and Boston. As many as 1,200 of those victims were projected to live in California.
Yesenia Chavez, a certified nursing assistant, checks the temperature of Grehlin Wright, who was registering for a hotel room on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Los Angeles County is working with state, federal and local partners on Project Roomkey, an initiative to bring medically vulnerable people experiencing homelessness indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Project Roomkey equips each hotel or motel with supportive services, including drug and alcohol counseling, mental health treatment, fresh meals and onsite security. Nurses monitor residents and staff members daily for signs of coronavirus infection, Marston said, and people who become symptomatic will be moved into isolation.
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