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COVID-19 Impacts on the DTES

Collected by: University of British Columbia

Archived since: Apr, 2020

Description:

A collection of of local news articles, government support options, and social policy websites documenting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). Includes information regarding how COVID-19 has impacted drug and overdose prevention as well as homelessness.

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Government - Cities Science & Health

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Title: Duplicate of row 32- both saved in Archive-it.] Calls for Vancouver Police to stop undermining public health in the DTES - Pivot Legal Society

URL: http://www.pivotlegal.org/vpd_stop_undermining_public_health_in_dtes_amid_covid-19?fbclid=IwAR1mZoh7Rk7fgXaTnJUZDb6bx4jRATHiR6RugJ3iSgXFZeJhjctubysMuDE

Description: Open letter from the Pivot Legal Society addressed to the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), calling for a change in VPD's COVID-19 response within the DTES community.

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Subject:   Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) COVID-19 (Disease),  Drug utilization

Title: Calls for Vancouver Police to stop undermining public health in the DTES - Pivot Legal Society

URL: http://www.pivotlegal.org/vpd_stop_undermining_public_health_in_dtes_amid_covid-19?fbclid=IwAR1mZoh7Rk7fgXaTnJUZDb6bx4jRATHiR6RugJ3iSgXFZeJhjctubysMuDE/

Description: Open letter published by the Pivot Legal Society calling for the VPD to change its policing methods as a result of the COVID-19 public health crisis in the DTES.

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Subject:   COVID-19 (Disease) Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.),  Drug utilization

Title: Episode 14: Emergency Measures

URL: https://crackdownpod.com/podcast/episode-14-emergency-measures/

Description: Podcast discussing the rising difficulties experienced by people who use drugs in the DTES as a result of COVID-19.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  COVID-19 (Disease) Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)

Title: Episode 15: Apocalypse Prescribing

URL: https://crackdownpod.com/podcast/episode-15-apocalypse-prescribing/

Description: Drug users in British Columbia are facing two overlapping public health emergencies: COVID-19 and the overdose crisis. With countries closing their borders due to the pandemic, the price of street drugs have also started to rise, resulting in a large spike of overdoses in Vancouver.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  COVID-19 (Disease) Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)

Title: COVID-19 COmmunity Resources | Sneezes + Diseases

URL: https://sneezesdiseases.com/covid-19-community-resources/

Description: Resource page by VCH's Communicable Disease Control division, providing COVID-19 information and resources for community partners who work with vulnerable populations (homeless and under-housed people, and people with complex care and/or MHSU needs).

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Subject:   COVID-19 (Disease),  Drug utilization ,  Homelessness

Title: Drugs Were Already Poisoned: Now COVID-19 Adds a New Threat | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/03/24/Drugs-COVID19-Coronavirus-Poisoned-Downtown-Eastside-Consumption/?_cldee=YW5nZWxhLndlbHpAZ21haWwuY29t/

Description: The restrictions brought on by COVID-19 have made operating safe injection sites in the DTES more difficult. Organizations such as the Overdose Prevention Society are raising funds in order to continue operations for DTES residents who are using drugs.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) COVID-19 (Disease)

Title: When crises collide: COVID-19 and overdose in the Downtown Eastside - Faculty of Arts

URL: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/when-crises-collide-covid-19-and-overdose-in-the-downtown-eastside/

Description: In March 2020, the B.C. government declared COVID-19 a public health emergency. But in the Downtown Eastside, the novel coronavirus has amplified an existing public health emergency: the overdose crisis, which has claimed more than 4,700 lives in B.C. in the last four years.

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Subject:   COVID-19 (Disease),  Drug utilization ,  Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)

Title: Safe supply of drugs for DTES residents given green light, says Vancouver | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-dtes-residents-covid-march-26-1.5511149/

Description: Article reporting on the federal government giving the green light for a safe supply of drugs for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents in light of the COVID-19 crisis, according to Mayor Kennedy Stewart.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) COVID-19 (Disease)

Title: COVID-19: Open letter from DTES frontline workers to Horgan, Dix, Henry, Daly, Stewart, and Darcy—we need more, now | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/open-letter-from-dtes-frontline-workers/

Description: Open letter from gues contributor in the Georgia Straight, addressed to representatives of the BC Provincial government, calling for urgent actions in order to address the dual health crises affecting the DTES community: drug addiction and COVID-19

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Subject:   Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.),  Drug utilization ,  COVID-19 (Disease)

Title: Supervised Drug Use Will Move Online Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

URL: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7kzqaa/supervised-drug-use-will-move-online-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

Description: Some Vancouver harm reduction advocates are taking a DIY approach to B.C.’s intersecting health emergencies in order to maintain a safe supply for people who use drugs.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) COVID-19 (Disease)

Title: Deadly Overdoses Are Rocking Canada's Poorest Neighbourhood Under Lockdown

URL: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/akw5aa/deadly-overdoses-are-rocking-canadas-poorest-neighbourhood-under-coronavirus-lockdown/

Description: During the Spring 2020 lockdown caused by COVID-19, a new wave of fatal overdoses in the Downtown Eastside has Vancouver's top doctor worried.

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Subject:   Drug utilization ,  COVID-19 (Disease) Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)

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