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Coronavirus is spreading under the radar in US homeless shelters

Close living quarters and a lack of testing among homeless people across the United States threaten the nation’s ability to control the pandemic, researchers say.
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Researchers are beginning to test homeless individuals in the United States for the virus that causes COVID-19 — and are discovering that the situation is out of control: tests are rare and outbreaks are spreading below the radar.

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Nature 581, 129-130 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01389-3

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  1. Baggett, T. P., Keyes, H., Sporn, N. & Gaeta, J. M. J. Am. Med. Assoc. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.6887 (2020).

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