Treating homelessness as an emergency: learning from the COVID-19 response

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 1X1, Canada. sahil.gupta2@unityhealth.to.
² Division of Emergency Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Editorial

Sahil Gupta et al. CJEM. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;23(1):8-9.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-020-00051-1. Epub 2021 Jan 25.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 1X1, Canada. sahil.gupta2@unityhealth.to.
² Division of Emergency Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

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