Orange County fairgrounds could house homeless at risk for coronavirus.
through this pandemic,” Michele Richards, chief executive of OC Fair & Event Center, said in a statement.
Mercy House, the nonprofit organization that runs the city’s homeless shelter at Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene, would maintain and operate the trailers if they are used. The city has already been housing senior and chronically ill homeless people at area hotels, Price said; the costs of this are expected to be reimbursed by the state.
County officials wrote in an email that “based on the initial assessment, medical and nursing experts felt the site could best be used to support less ill patients, who would still require hospitalization.”Homeless people, who are more likely than the general population to have underlying health conditions and weakened immune systems, often from living on the streets, are at a higher risk for developing severe forms of COVID-19, health experts say.
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