For N.J.’s homeless, COVID pandemic brings new struggles as eviction ‘tsunami’ looms
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
Pamela Ortiz, who is staying at the Rescue Mission of Trenton, sits in the women s sleeping area, where the beds have been repositioned and now include plexiglass dividers during the pandemic. Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Angela Fields sees the writing on the wall.
This time last year, the organization she runs out of Hunterdon County one of the wealthiest counties in the nation was finding housing for four desperate families from their community who had nowhere to go.
COVID-19 vaccine logistics are tough as it is, but inoculating transient people living in homeless shelters or on the street adds more layers of complication.
State officials and shelter workers in New Jersey are grappling with tough questions: How do you make sure people get a second dose of the vaccine if they don’t regularly return to one shelter? How do you build trust and persuade people to take a vaccine, especially if there are complicating factors, such as a fear of needles? Where would vaccines be administered if shelters don’t have health care workers on site to help? What if people don’t have access to a computer to make an appointment for a vaccine?
Vaccinating the general public for COVID is hard enough. What about NJ s homeless?
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COVID-19 vaccine logistics are tough as it is, but inoculating transient people living in homeless shelters or on the street adds more layers of complication.
State officials and shelter workers in New Jersey are grappling with tough questions: How do you make sure people get a second dose of the vaccine if they don’t regularly return to one shelter? How do you build trust and persuade people to take a vaccine, especially if there are complicating factors, such as a fear of needles? Where would vaccines be administered if shelters don’t have health care workers on site to help? What if people don’t have access to a computer to make an appointment for a vaccine?
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