James J. O’Connell

TL;DR: In multivariable analyses, significant predictors of unmet needs included food insufficiency, out-of-home placement as a minor, vision impairment, and lack of health insurance.

TL;DR: The all-cause mortality rate among homeless adults in Boston remains high and unchanged since 1988 to 1993 despite a major interim expansion in clinical services, and drug overdose has replaced HIV as the emerging epidemic.

TL;DR: The goal was to ascertain cause-specific mortality rates in a cohort of homeless adults among adults who had contact with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program between 1 July 1988 and 31 December 1993.

TL;DR: Investigating the introduction and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the Boston area across the first wave of the pandemic provides powerful evidence of the importance of superspreading events in shaping the course of this pandemic and illustrates how some introductions, when amplified under unfortunate circumstances, can have an outsized effect with devastating consequences that extend far beyond the initial events themselves.

TL;DR: In a group of adults seen by a health care program for the homeless, specific medical illnesses were associated with the greatest risk of death and substance abuse alone was less strongly associated with death.