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Supports for homeless people fight infection: How the Shepherds of Good Hope put the brakes on a COVID-19 outbreak
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Title (Dublin Core)
Supports for homeless people fight infection: How the Shepherds of Good Hope put the brakes on a COVID-19 outbreak
Description (Dublin Core)
This in-depth newspaper piece discusses how the Ottawa Inner City Health organization and the city's 4 largest homeless shelters: The Shepherds of Good Hope, The Ottawa Mission, the Salvation Army, and Cornerstone Housing for Women, prepared for and have been seeking to limited the spread of and treat Covid-19 infections among the vulnerable homeless population. The Shepherds of Good Hope experiences an outbreak (an 'outbreak' is a cluster of cases which occurs within an institution and requires specific responses by the institution under law) but due to the protocols in place, it was limited and ended quickly.
A highlight of the article is the anecdote regarding masked. While Ottawa Inner City Health was not provided with the PPE it initially ordered due to a mix up regarding their place in the queue for supplies during a shortage. However, masks, specifically, did not end up being an issue, as the Salvation Army found a palette of unused N-95 masks it had ordered during the 2009 H1N1 epidemic and which had been forgotten in the back of their loading dock for those 11 years. The palette contained 10,000 masks which were then shared among the various centres.
A highlight of the article is the anecdote regarding masked. While Ottawa Inner City Health was not provided with the PPE it initially ordered due to a mix up regarding their place in the queue for supplies during a shortage. However, masks, specifically, did not end up being an issue, as the Salvation Army found a palette of unused N-95 masks it had ordered during the 2009 H1N1 epidemic and which had been forgotten in the back of their loading dock for those 11 years. The palette contained 10,000 masks which were then shared among the various centres.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 11, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Andrew Duffy
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Andrew Duffy
Type (Dublin Core)
news article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Source (Dublin Core)
Ottawa Citizen
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Ottawa Citizen
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Issues
English
Community & Community Organizations
English
News coverage
English
Religion
English
NGOs (non-profits)
English
Clothing & Accessories
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
homeless
mask
mission
frontline
Ottawa
salvation army
health
PPE
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
homeless
housing
outbreak
mask
Collection (Dublin Core)
Social Justice
Religion
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/11/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/21/2020
10/03/2020
10/08/2020
07/20/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
06/11/2020
This item was submitted on June 11, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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