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    Responding to COVID-19 in Emergency Shelters

    Metadata Updated: April 2, 2025

    On March 11, 2020, Mayor Bowser declared a coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency in the District of Columbia. Since then, the DC Department of Human Services modified operations and implemented a strategy to prevent the introduction and spread of COVID-19 in low-barrier shelters. The following details the steps and actions taken to protect the District's most vulnerable residents from the novel coronavirus and to prevent its spread in congregate shelters throughout the city.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025

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    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2020-06-12T20:44:15.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2023-05-05T15:15:07.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::responding-to-covid-19-in-emergency-shelters
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.2258,38.7867,-76.8125,39.0009
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 87ea8d5c403dc51f35363e76595dd910ac1a4e9cdacc219ce045753ffc88921e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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