Homeless Testing COVID Positive At Lower Rates Than City's General Population

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Mirela Iverac
WNYC News | Aug 24, 2020

From mid-July through mid-August, just 1 percent of the general population tested positive. But among New Yorkers in the city's shelter system, the number was even smaller: 0.6 percent.

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