Miami Herald | As coronavirus pushes people inside, Miamis homeless population faces greater risk

Ron Jones used to spend his days at Miami-Dade’s public libraries and his evenings at the Miami Rescue Center’s homeless shelter. Then came the novel coronavirus.

Fear of the fast-spreading virus drove the 64-year-old cancer survivor back to the streets, on a bed steps away from a plastic handwashing station the city set up last week. He feels safer alongside a busy road in Wynwood than inside the shelter, where men sleep in bunk beds or crammed together on the floor.

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