LifeLong Medical’s Emily Law knocks on the door of an RV asking if the resident would like a free COVID-19 test on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo: Pete Rosos
“Good morning, LifeLong street medicine,” Emily Law calls out as she knocks on the door of an RV parked in West Berkeley on Tuesday morning.
Law, a registered nurse, was visiting the Eighth and Harrison Street encampment with social worker Elese Lorentzen and community health worker Mukund Raguram to offer COVID-19 tests to its residents. The three colleagues make up one of LifeLong Medical Care’s five street-medicine teams that provide health care and case management to unhoused communities in the East Bay.