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class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column1754_592358-82\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><h1 style=\"margin-right:30px;margin-left:30px;\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color alignwide wp-elements-fcb699291ef6430427119bc2d1307555 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-standard-white-color\">Living Through Covid \u2013 The City Turned Upside Down: Launch event<\/h1>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color cirg-screen-excerpt wp-elements-a8508ab0214aaef08ded30a066c8b76c wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-standard-white-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Our Clinical Director, Dr Claire Mackintosh, took part in this creative exploration of the early stages of the pandemic through the eyes of frontline staff in the homelessness sector and people experiencing homelessness <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase; border-radius:50px; 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The news was full of healthcare services under pressure and people experiencing homelessness and living on the streets were thought to be highly vulnerable to the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, unprecedented action was taken to practically eliminate rough sleeping. Bureaucracy was pushed aside, and government, health services, charities, businesses and individuals all joined forces. \u2018Red tape\u2019 fell away and those working in the third sector in Scotland found that they were able to act quickly to support people getting off the streets and into hotels and other accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrenians captured this unique point in time with frontline staff, managers and people experiencing homelessness and isolation documenting their experiences through poems, songs, video interviews, reflective journals, tweets and photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at the University of Edinburgh then analysed all of this \u2018real time\u2019 material in a report. 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