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    Coronavirus and homelessness: How is LA protecting people on the streets?

    One frequent issue for people experiencing homelessness is hygiene -- how to keep clean when you don’t have ready access to running water, soap, a shower, clean clothes.

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    Person smiling broadly wearing glasses and plaid shirt against ivy-covered wall background.By Steve Chiotakis • Mar 11, 2020 • 1 min read

    One frequent issue for people experiencing homelessness is hygiene -- how to keep clean when you don’t have ready access to running water, soap, a shower, clean clothes. That’s a particular dilemma now with the spread of the coronavirus.

    Health experts are constantly telling us that the best protection against contracting the virus -- or passing it to others -- is to wash our hands and maintain social distancing.

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    Coronavirus and the unhoused
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    2. 7:56On Skid Row, a pop-up beauty shop offers dignity to the most vulnerable
    3. 17:1699-year-old LA artist Luchita Hurtado gets first solo retrospective at LACMA
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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Coronavirus and the unhoused
    1. 0:00Coronavirus and homelessness: How is LA protecting people on the streets?You’re reading this
    2. 7:56On Skid Row, a pop-up beauty shop offers dignity to the most vulnerable
    3. 17:1699-year-old LA artist Luchita Hurtado gets first solo retrospective at LACMA
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