063 - Homelessness and COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Homelessness is already a public health emergency in the US. COVID-19 now adds to the unique challenges facing individuals without homes. So how are the homeless and their caregivers responding? Kevin Lindamood and Dr. Adrienne Trustman of Baltimore's Health Care for the Homeless, and Barbara DiPietro of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about homelessness amid a pandemic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.5	Today, the topic is COVID-19 and homelessness.
0:46.3	What are the challenges facing individuals without homes?
0:49.4	And how are they and their caregivers responding?
0:52.3	I speak to Kevin Lindemude, the CEO, and Dr. Adrian
0:56.0	Trussman, the chief medical officer of Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore. Then I talk to
1:01.2	Barbara DiPiatro from the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council. Let's listen.
1:06.8	So I'm going to start with you, Kevin. You are the president and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless
1:14.2	here in Baltimore.
1:15.5	Just set the scene.
1:16.6	How many people does your organization serve, say,
1:19.6	in a year?
1:20.8	Health Care for the Homeless serves a wide variety of people
1:25.1	in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, about 10,000 different people
1:28.2	annually prior to COVID-19.
1:30.5	So as you start to pick up the news that a respiratory virus that has never infected humans
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