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Record W4391795180 · doi:10.51952/9781447359869.ch007

Experiencing Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

2020· book-chapter· en· W4391795180 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Cynthia Puddu

Bibliographic record

VenuePolicy Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)HistoryMedicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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The increasing rates of homelessness in the United States and Canada have been a growing social and health concern for several decades. On any given night, it is estimated that over 500,000 individuals in the United States and 35,000 individuals in Canada experience homelessness. It is well documented that individuals experiencing homelessness have higher morbidity and mortality rates than the general population. The social and health disparities that individuals experiencing homelessness encounter are known to many in the homeless-serving sectors. However, these extant disparities have increased, and become exposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of individuals becoming homeless due to the economic instability it has created and, once homeless, there is an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. If individuals do contract the virus, the risk of severe outcomes is heightened due to the higher rate of underlying medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes in homeless populations. Currently, the primary public health measures to help curb the spread of COVID-19 are to mandate stay-at-home orders and social distancing. When stay-at-home orders are announced, there is an underlying assumption that individuals have a home. This is not the case for the hundreds of thousands of individuals experiencing homelessness in Canada and the US. These individuals use various spaces to stay safe, such as overnight emergency shelters, daytime drop-in centers, or sleeping in tent encampments. Many of these environments increase the risk of contracting and transmitting COVID-19.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.887
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.136
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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