A Black Lives Matter protest more accessible to those in the disabled community is being organized for next Friday in Portsmouth.
For a highly contagious virus, a homeless shelter with dozens of beds, sometimes less than two feet apart, is extremely vulnerable.
While people who have housing can actively choose whether to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing guidelines, those facing homelessness are living in “matchboxes,” as one advocate described it.
When Marti Milan, of Claremont, finishes her weekend shifts working as a nursing assistant at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, she’s exhausted. She’s been in the job for two years, but these days there are constantly new policies to learn and an ever-present worry about being exposed to coronavirus. All of that makes it difficult for Milan, 21, to shift back into student mode come Monday and do her coursework from Colby-Sawyer College, where she studies nursing.
