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Driven to help those that can\u2019t help themselves, the Homeless Voice\u2019s outreach team brings COVID-19 vaccines to those on the street.<\/h2>\n

By Andrew Fraieli<\/em><\/h6>\n

What was previously an outreach team, roaming the streets at night to give shelter and food to those in need, has turned into a mobile hospital for those who haven\u2019t been able, or aware enough, to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Just six months ago, the team began administering shots and have already given out almost 200. The team consists of two registered nurses and four volunteers, and are led by the head of the COSAC Foundation and publisher of the Homeless Voice, Sean Cononie. Together they go out every couple days to search for those in need.<\/p>\n

In the past, they gave out vaccines during the swine flu outbreak, so this is not their first time. But this time around is different, according to Cononie: \u201cThe homeless aren\u2019t in groups like they used to be a long time ago, the cities have stopped them and made it very hard for us to find them. So we really have to go looking for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team goes out in the morning and late at night, but \u201csome days we can go out all day and find one, and some days we\u2019ll [vaccinate] 20,\u201d he says. Over the past months this has been across Dade, Broward, Jacksonville and Palm Beach counties.<\/p>\n

Only the \u201creally functional homeless\u201d get the vaccines themselves according to Cononie, so the team looks for \u201cpeople who aren\u2019t normally going to go take care of their own health problems…the really hard to reach. We even do some trailer parks, people who don\u2019t have transportation, stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team goes out with an RV and sets up with the vaccines and supplies, along with an SUV that they drive around to look for people, and transport them.<\/p>\n

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Registered Nurse, and Homeless Outreach Volunteer, Cathy Foster, giving a vaccine | Photo courtesy of Sean Cononie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The process doesn\u2019t take long: going over risk factors, reading forms, and asking if they are interested. \u201cAnd if they decide to, we give them a shot, and they wait about 20 minutes after the shot, and we\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who are hesitant, they come back another day, but many do decide to take it as the team has interacted with many of them before, and they\u2019ve built a measure of trust. Even when the pandemic first started there was no gap in their outreach. They stocked up on masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, all sorts of PPE, and would travel around the same way passing it out.<\/p>\n

The vaccines themselves they receive for free from the Florida Shots state program. Whenever they run out of supply, they bring people to a CVS or Walgreens \u2014 of which they\u2019ve brought 300 people so far.<\/p>\n

They also keep track of everyone after giving out the vaccine, taking down cell phone numbers and having the people call them if they need anything, \u201cand we go out looking for them.\u201d This is to make sure everyone stays safe \u2014 in the past they\u2019ve gotten calls for allergy medications and emergencies \u2014 and for second shots, as they give out both the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.<\/p>\n

When finally asked how long he thought they would be giving out the vaccines, Cononie answered quickly, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be able to stop. I think we\u2019ll be doing this for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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