For the 575,000 U.S. adults who are homeless on any given night, the coronavirus has been catastrophic, ripping through overcrowded shelters, where as many as two-thirds of residents tested positive in early spring.
; and the chronic stress of living on the streets can age the body prematurely, making a 45-year-old look more like a 60-year-old medically.
Overcrowded shelters quickly became a tinderbox of infection, with one study of 19 shelters in four cities showing a quarter of patrons and one in 10 staffers were infected. In San Francisco, the numbers were even higher, with two-thirds of homeless people testing positive. In Boston, the city and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts teamed up with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program to transform the glistening downtown convention center into a 500-bed field hospital for COVID-positive individuals with no homes.
Next door, at the massive concert venue, the Denver Coliseum, homeless women slept in a similar complex, some catching a ride on a golf cart to go visit their male partners.
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