SASKATOON Advocates say Canada should learn from San Francisco’s approach in allowing homeless people to voluntarily quarantine in repurposed hotels, which includes providing them with behavioural health support. The city’s hotel-based quarantine program which offers rooms, as well as medical care and behavioural health support for two weeks was safe and highly effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19 in the community, according to a new U.S. study. The findings, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open last week, noted how 81 per cent of people completed their quarantine, with only four per cent of those who’d been moved there from the hospital needing to be readmitted due to COVID-19 complications.