USA. This Trio Took Care of the Bronx’s Homeless Drug Users Through the Worst Months of COVID-19

New York City has boasted low COVID-19 numbers throughout the summer, but in March through May, the virus ravaged the city, killing more than 20,000 and leaving many homeless folks scared to go into crowded shelters—then additionally bereft when the city began closing the subway system, a reliable nighttime refuge for homeless folks, between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Additionally, many harm-reduction agencies that serve the sizable, heavily Puerto Rican drug-using population of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx shut their doors, cutting folks off from much-needed daytime sources of food, shelter, services, showers, laundry, case management, and other services.

That’s precisely why Tamara Oyola Santiago, Alexis Del Rio, and Nelson Gonzalez, the trio that started Bronx Móvil, risked their own health to hit the Bronx streets at night to make sure folks had what they needed to stay safe from both injection-drug-related illnesses (such as HIV, hepatitis C, and, of course, overdose) and COVID. (The Body, USA, 26.08.2020)

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