Advocates worry that deaths could rise if the weather stays cold and rainy.
, in fact — but all have requirements that can be hard for some unhoused people to meet, like being able to show prior residency in the community."Obviously, we're still dealing with COVID, we're dealing with flu, upper respiratory infections," said Michael Sean Wright, founder of the street medicine group."If you're already not well and are vulnerable, imagine what these cold and wet conditions are like for long, sustained periods of time.
. Annual average rainfall for the area is 12 inches, Tardy said, meaning rain levels are higher than normal this year and way ahead of previous drought years."They have more rain right now than all of last year," Tardy said. Neighbors and city leaders in Santa Ana and Fullerton, where another cold weather shelter operated until 2020, also complained that the shelters attracted unhoused people from other parts of the county, then left them on the street when the shelter’s doors closed each morning.
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