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This is going to be one of the iconic images of the pandemic, from photographer @todseelie:
Homeless Americans sleeping in taped squares in a parking lot, while the Las Vegas strip, full of empty hotel rooms, shimmers behind them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Homeless Americans sleeping in taped squares in a parking lot, while the Las Vegas strip, full of empty hotel rooms, shimmers behind them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
A whole series of incredibly striking, unsettling photos from Las Vegas in late March from photographer @todseelie and journalist @annamerlan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
"The giant resort hotels behind the casinos are walls of black, every hotel room dark." @annamerlan reporting from Las Vegas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
"For a week, people who would have spent the night in the shelter slept instead in a parking lot, directly on the concrete, in neatly taped-off rows. Behind them, the strip shimmered, the walls of empty hotel rooms safely encased in glass." @annamerlan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
The city of Las Vegas is responding to questions about this March 30 photo by emphasizing that they have now erected tents in the Cashman parking lot for homeless people sick with coronavirus, or in need of quarantine: https://twitter.com/CityOfLasVegas/status/1250426215447400454">https://twitter.com/CityOfLas...
An official city photograph of the tents Las Vegas erected in a parking lot for homeless people sick with coronavirus.
"The tents have heating/air conditioning, power, lights and 10’ by 10’ individual rooms."
"First of its kind facility in the nation." https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog/Detail/iso-q-complex-for-homeless-patients-opens">https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog...
"The tents have heating/air conditioning, power, lights and 10’ by 10’ individual rooms."
"First of its kind facility in the nation." https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog/Detail/iso-q-complex-for-homeless-patients-opens">https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog...
Same parking lot, now with tents.
The "inside look" at Las Vegas& #39; "isolation complex" for homeless people sick with or exposed to coronavirus, from this @MaxNews3LV report @News3LV:
https://news3lv.com/news/local/pop-up-homeless-virus-treatment-center-opening-in-las-vegas">https://news3lv.com/news/loca...
The "inside look" at Las Vegas& #39; "isolation complex" for homeless people sick with or exposed to coronavirus, from this @MaxNews3LV report @News3LV:
https://news3lv.com/news/local/pop-up-homeless-virus-treatment-center-opening-in-las-vegas">https://news3lv.com/news/loca...
. @annamerlan on the story behind the photo:
A night shelter temporarily had to close on March 25, after an employee + a guest tested positive for the virus. For a week, people who would have spent the night in the shelter slept instead in a parking lot.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
A night shelter temporarily had to close on March 25, after an employee + a guest tested positive for the virus. For a week, people who would have spent the night in the shelter slept instead in a parking lot.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/las-vegas-strip-closed-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
