COVID-19: a potential public health problem for homeless populations

The Lancet Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2020, Pages e186-e187

  Tsai, Jack ^a,b,c   Wilson, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AMONG VETERANS   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEPATITIS A; HOMELESS PERSON; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SHIGELLA; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MIGRATION; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 85082198942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24682667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30053-0     Document Type: Note

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