In this file photo from Thursday, March 19, 2020, an ambulance drives by a homeless encampment in Oakland, Calif. Efforts to move California's large homeless population into isolated quarters to slow the spread of the coronavirus are still sluggish despite a $150 million cash infusion by the governor and a crisis that public health experts say needs to be curbed now. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
March 26, 2020
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Few sheltered as California aims to help homeless amid virus
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless outreach workers are passing out hand sanitizer, checking temperatures and pleading with people not to crowd together. But a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged thousands of hotel rooms to help the homeless survive the coronavirus pandemic, most of those rooms sit empty.