City Plans To Test Thousands Of Homeless Residents For COVID-19

Virus Outbreak Illinois Daily Life
A homeless man occupies a Chicago Transit Authority bus shelter during the coronavirus pandemic on the city's West Side on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo
Virus Outbreak Illinois Daily Life
A homeless man occupies a Chicago Transit Authority bus shelter during the coronavirus pandemic on the city's West Side on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo

City Plans To Test Thousands Of Homeless Residents For COVID-19

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Reset speaks with an infectious diseases expert who is co-leading Chicago’s effort to test thousands of residents experiencing homelessness for COVID-19.

GUEST: Dr. Stockton Mayer, Division of Infectious Diseases at UI Health