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Mobile Homes to Isolate Homeless Patients in Los Angeles

The Dockweiler RV Park is one of five shelters commissioned by Los Angeles County to isolate COVID-19 patients Robyn Beck AFP
The Dockweiler RV Park is one of five shelters commissioned by Los Angeles County to isolate COVID-19 patients Robyn Beck AFP
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Mobile Homes to Isolate Homeless Patients in Los Angeles

The Dockweiler RV Park is one of five shelters commissioned by Los Angeles County to isolate COVID-19 patients Robyn Beck AFP
The Dockweiler RV Park is one of five shelters commissioned by Los Angeles County to isolate COVID-19 patients Robyn Beck AFP

The authority in Los Angeles County, where housing is expensive, has decided to isolate homeless COVID-19 patients in a mobile home park with an ocean view near a local beach.

Over 20 homeless people have been taken to the Dockweiler Park in El Segundo, in the southern suburb of Los Angeles.

According to AFP, about 100 white caravans are lined up side by side, and mask-wearing guards are blocking entrances as health workers in protective gear move in and out of the trailers, providing patients with vests and breathing aids.
The park is one of five shelters commissioned so far by Los Angeles County to isolate the COVID-19 patients, mostly homeless people who count 50,000 in the region.

"We need places where people can be safely isolated from the public and even from their families," County Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement.

After two weeks of social isolation measures aimed at containing the coronavirus spread, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $50 million fund to buy mobile homes and to rent spaces in which those living on the street could self-isolate.

California purchased 1,300 mobile homes to cope with the ongoing health situation.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Aims to Fly Closer to the Sun Like Never Before

The sun sets in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, as a forest fires burns on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
The sun sets in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, as a forest fires burns on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Aims to Fly Closer to the Sun Like Never Before

The sun sets in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, as a forest fires burns on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
The sun sets in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, as a forest fires burns on the outskirts of the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before.
The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun's corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.

The next milestone: closest approach to the sun. Plans call for Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the sun's surface, The Associated Press reported.
At that moment, if the sun and Earth were at opposite ends of a football field, Parker "would be on the 4-yard line,” said NASA's Joe Westlake.
Mission managers won't know how Parker fared until days after the flyby since the spacecraft will be out of communication range.

Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting 430,000 mph (690,000 kph) at closest approach. It's the fastest spacecraft ever built and is outfitted with a heat shield that can withstand scorching temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,371 degrees Celsius).

It'll continue circling the sun at this distance until at least September.

Scientists hope to better understand why the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the sun’s surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic stream of charged particles constantly blasting away from the sun.

The sun's warming rays make life possible on Earth. But severe solar storms can temporarily scramble radio communications and disrupt power.
The sun is currently at the maximum phase of its 11-year cycle, triggering colorful auroras in unexpected places.

“It both is our closest, friendliest neighbor,” Westlake said, “but also at times is a little angry.”