The outbreak at MSC South comes as the city continues to address how to best house and protect its homeless community during the coronavirus outbreak.
San Francisco's largest homeless shelter has been hit with a coronavirus outbreak, with 70 people testing positive for the disease, known as COVID-19.
On Wednesday, everyone in the shelter was tested for the disease. The center can typically accommodate 340 guests overnight, but at the time hosted fewer than 150 people, about half of whom ended up testing positive for the disease. "We are going to reroute our medical health experts, our nurses and other health support to this facility," Mayor London Breed said at a Friday press conference according to the Chronicle.An ongoing challenge for city leaders has been how to house and protect members of the city's homeless community. There were already at least three confirmed cases among homeless residents staying at shelters in the city.
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