The M Street Navigation Center is expected to be closed for seven days following a COVID outbreak. That's according to the Community Action Partnership of Kern which says they're making the move to protect the health of both existing and potential clients as well as members of the staff.
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00:00 And in other news, the M Street Navigation Center is expected to be closed for seven
00:05 days following a COVID outbreak.
00:07 That's according to the Community Action Partnership of Kern that says they're making the move
00:11 to protect the health of both existing and potential clients, as well as members of the
00:16 staff.
00:17 By and large, what we are seeing is that people get through this.
00:22 It's much like a flu, but because it is so capable at spreading.
00:28 We are taking all the steps that we can to isolate people in hotel rooms and then quarantine
00:36 them so that we don't have the entire population regularly exposed.
00:42 Gil says the Navigation Center is expected to reopen by next Monday.
00:47 Federal officials believe that the U.S. averted a homeless crisis at the height of the pandemic.
00:52 The Department of Housing and Urban Development released a new report last month showing that
00:56 sheltered homelessness decreased by 17 percent from 2019 to 2020.
01:02 Now the department credits pandemic relief for that decrease.
01:07 Four officials cited historic funding and resources like emergency rental assistance,
01:13 expanded unemployment benefits and a national ban on evictions as reasons why.
01:19 Meantime COVID sending more Americans to the hospital, according to the latest data from
01:22 the CDC.
01:24 The agency reporting more than 12,600 new hospital admissions in the week ending August
01:29 12th.
01:30 That was 22 percent higher than the previous week.
01:33 Some health experts say the increase should be a wake-up call to Americans to take the
01:38 virus seriously before winter arrives.
01:41 And many Americans believe false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines.
01:45 A new poll by KFF, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found that about a third of adults
01:51 believe COVID shots caused thousands of sudden deaths in healthy people.
01:55 Nearly a third also said they believe the medication Ivermectin was an effective treatment
02:00 against the virus.
02:01 Health experts have said several times that there is no evidence to back up either claim.