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Outbreak at Mission District SRO Casa Quezada: 22 residents and two staff test positive for COVID-19

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By and | | , , , , |Casa Quezada“In keeping with established protocols, and based on the contact investigation and the unique features of this building,” the department’s press release said. “DPH recommended testing all residents and staff and conducted that testing onsite on April 19.”&nbsp; After showing symptoms earlier, the first resident tested positive on April 13But the nonprofit that manages the SRO said it took considerable prodding on their part — and support did not arrive soon enough.Dolores Street also reported that the Mission SRO Collaborative, a Dolores Street program, has confirmed four COVID-19 positive cases at the Grand Southern and one at 16 Virginia, off Mission Street near 30th Street.The Grand Southern is a 60+ unit hotel in the 1000 block of Mission near Civic Center, housing mostly families, seniors and immuno-compromised people.Tags: •wrong address in article. it’s 10 blocks from 938 valencia, if I go by the address in the photo. Up near market street.If the city keeps reacting this fast we’ll all be dead by Christmas. Seems like they are depending on “sheltering in place” to do most of the hard work for them. I mean after 110 people got sick at that big “navigation center”, I mean homeless shelter a week or two ago while City Hall twiddled its thumbs. Granted test kits are tight and were tighter. But that’s why politicians have throats, to scream about stuff like that on TV. I was out walking up to a local park today. I do it every Friday and today everybody was out and about like last year. Though a lot were wearing masks etc. And one young guy on Duboce was walking up the street without one and was coughing his guts out. I pulled my bandana up over my nose and fled into the empty street till I was past him. The sidewalks and trees are not contagious but coughs are. That was the most public coughing I’ve heard in a while.A fitting legacy for Eric Quezada. When Quezada and Joe Lynn were alive, Joe was ombudsperson at the HIV Planning and Prevention Council. DSCS had the Cohen homes on Dolores that were inherited from 18th Street Services (if memory serves) to serve PWAs.DSCS’s saw its mission as “serving” homeless and poor Latinos. So they saw Cohen as a distraction. One resident complained to Joe that management and staff were messing with him for sport and that their supportive housing operation had transferred their scripts to a pharmacy out by Ocean Beach. Joe tried to get DSCS and Quezada to respond to the complaint. But they never did.We’re seeing that the nonprofit class of operators were basically marking time all of these years as I’d said. MEDA did nothing to help Mission businesses insulate themselves from displacement, now they’re in the business of building and managing what are going to end up as densely packed tenements. DSCS was supposed to serve homeless Latinos. Not only did homeless housing and services crest at a trickle, none of it made a dent in the underlying problems.Now the failure of the neoliberal nonprofit approach to community organizing, social justice and service provision is revealed as a not-up-to-the-task self-serving fraud. And the City is throwing more money at them during the crisis. Unreal.-----﻿

By and | | , , , , |Casa Quezada“In keeping with established protocols, and based on the contact investigation and the unique features of this building,” the department’s press release said. “DPH recommended testing all residents and staff and conducted that testing onsite on April 19.”&nbsp; After showing symptoms earlier, the first resident tested positive on April 13But the nonprofit that manages the SRO said it took considerable prodding on their part — and support did not arrive soon enough.Dolores Street also reported that the Mission SRO Collaborative, a Dolores Street program, has...

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