Vancouver is home to a large number of people whose lifestyle makes it nearly impossible to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus.
Good hand hygiene and self-isolation are elusive when one lives in crowded conditions and on the street.
Thursday the city announced it was erecting 10 hand-washing stations in the Downtown Eastside to help.
what about housing?
handwashing only goes so far. and down there, not nearly far enough. what a joke.