The San Diego Housing Commission said there are surges of COVID-19 cases happening in San Diego's homeless population similar to the general population.
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These sites don’t come cheap. During a January meeting of the Board of Supervisors, Andrew Pease, executive financial director for the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said that a superstation costs around $123,000 a day when running at peak capacity, and that each smaller site can cost $12,000 a day.
County officials have said they plan to have 1.9 million San Diegans vaccinated against the coronavirus by July and are willing to spend up to $100 million to do so though they’re hoping to be reimbursed by the state and federal government.
“We do know money is on the way,” Fletcher said. “We are not overly concerned that we will not be reimbursed.”