Coronavirus restrictions forced unhoused individuals out of shelters and closed facilities that provided vital services
San Francisco has seen a surge in deaths among homeless people this spring, fatalities that officials are not directly attributing to coronavirus but which advocates say is a result of the shelter-in-place order that forced people onto the streets.
From 30 March to 24 May, 48 people experiencing homelessness died in San Francisco, more than three times the 14 deaths recorded during this same period last year. Though some of those 48 tested positive “near their time of death,” their causes of death are still under investigation and have not been counted among the city’s Covid-related fatalities, according to the San Francisco department of public health.
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