Summer Without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19

Madeline J Hooper; Lauren C Linkowski; Lynette Menezes; Jordan Messler

doi:10.1001/amajethics.2021.898

Summer Without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19

AMA J Ethics. 2021 Nov 1;23(11):E898-904. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.898.

Authors

Madeline J Hooper¹, Lauren C Linkowski², Lynette Menezes³, Jordan Messler⁴

Affiliations

¹ Fourth-year student at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida, and the humanities director for Tampa Bay Street Medicine.
² Third-year student at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida, and a humanities coordinator for Tampa Bay Street Medicine.
³ Assistant vice president of USF Health International in Tampa, Florida.
⁴ Executive director of clinical practice at Glytec.

PMID: 34874261
DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.898

Abstract

Shelter-in-place orders enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic were impossible to abide by for some persons without shelter in Tampa, Florida. This narrative considers themes of community, public health, and material conditions of humanity and dignity in a photographic investigation of life among persons for whom the prevailing adage "safer at home" did not apply.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2