Social distancing lines are drawn around homeless people as they sleep in a Las Vegas parking lot.
The Touro University students will screen the homeless before they come into the shelter, looking for symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus.
"In case somebody may come down with symptoms or whatever, they can get on that right away," Michael Hamilton, a homeless man in Las Vegas, told KLAS. The novel coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, and continues to spread across the world. According to a Johns Hopkins University tracker, there are over 156,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. and over 2,800 deaths. In Nevada, there are at least 1,008 confirmed cases and 15 deaths.
People start to arrive on March 28 at a temporary homeless shelter set up in a parking lot at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas. Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada was closed this week after a homeless man who used its services tested positive for the coronavirus, leaving about 500 people with no overnight shelter.
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