April 15, 2020
Toronto Life
Ontario
Andrea Yu
“People are sleeping in the streets or ravines because shelters are unsafe”: This doctor is helping restructure homeless shelters during the Covid crisis
Aaron Orkin, an ER doctor and population medicine expert, provides health care services to people experiencing homelessness. As soon as Covid-19 hit, Orkin poured all his resources into emergency restructuring in the shelter system to protect its clients and the city at large. Orkin spoke to Toronto Life about how the pandemic is hitting the homeless population, why the city isn’t doing enough, and how filling Toronto’s empty hotels could solve the problem right now…