Masking up to stop coronavirus isn't so easy for many of L.A.’s homeless residents

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Masking up to stop coronavirus isn't so easy for many of L.A.’s homeless residents
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has ordered people to wear face coverings, but homeless people and their advocates say masking up is difficult for many who live on the street.

last week amid concerns that seemingly healthy people were spreading the virus to others.

“No one talked to them in depth about COVID-19,” Henderson said, pointing out that many of the places where homeless people routinely charge their phones, such as coffee shops, are now closed. And White said the Los Angeles Community Action Network has also been handing out donated masks, many of them fashioned out of cloth by volunteers. “Ninety-five percent of people don’t have things to cover up with,” White said Wednesday, upon walking out of his office on skid row. If they do have facial coverings, they’re “dirty as all get out.”

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