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Kanada. How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Kanada. How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at a pop-up shelter in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The unhoused residents—initially around 35 people, including some of the city’s most marginalized people who use drugs—were then moved into a fancy hotel in the city center to isolate.
Everything was such a mess at the time, much like it still is now. But a group of caring health care practitioners, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers, and harm reduction workers, took on the task of providing a safe supply of drugs to the people forced into the hotel. (Filter, 09.02.2022)