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Covenant House is a nonprofit organization that provides housing and support services to youth facing homelessness. Homeless services are provided in congregate settings, which can facilitate the spread of infection. Recommendations to prevent COVID-19 may be difficult for a person experiencing homelessness to follow. For many, it is not possible to avoid crowded locations, such as shelters. However, once sheltered, some measures become more feasible, such as frequent handwashing with soap and water and wearing a face mask. Maintaining a distance of six feet from others may be more or less feasible depending on the limitations of spacing at the shelter but can be addressed with processes that make it possible. Covenant House staff members have been tirelessly working to maintain standard measures to protect our youth and to be able to sustain the shelters' mission during this unprecedented time …