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Health Care For The Homeless CEO: 'Glaring Holes In Our Social Safety Nets'

Citizens who are dealing with poverty and homelessness are at particularly high risk for infection.  After all, how do you self-isolate when you depend on soup kitchens for food?

And what does it mean to socially distance, or shelter in place, when your place is a single bed in a space shared with hundreds of others?   

Kevin Lindamood, president and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless, joins Tom to discuss COVID-19 challenges for those without shelter.

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