621 - The Health Consequences of Displacing People Experiencing Homelessness
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English - June 05, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutes - 26.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid covid19 education globalhealth medicine coronavirus health novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What happens when homeless encampments are swept away? Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about a new study that simulates the true cost of “move along” orders and encampment “clean ups"—including infectious disease outbreaks, hospitalizations and deaths. They then discuss the short-term and long-term implications of these findings.