The biggest killer of San Franciscans in 2020, by far, was drug overdoses. We will end 2020 w close to 700 overdoses, nearly 3x deaths of 2 years ago. Nearly 2 a day. There was mostly silence or business usual from city departments & Room 200. This was a brutal, shameful failure
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Um yeah but no. We have a Covid hotel program. When people go inside and get the basic necessities (food, shelter, healthcare), their ODs climb.
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The climbing OD rates have to do with A: OD rates are climbing due to fentanyl. B: Isolation exacerbated by COVID. ODs are not caused by getting basic needs met. People getting their needs met helps to heal all kinds of malady.
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