I'd rather sleep on the street': Homeless cancer patient scared to stay in Toronto's shelters amid COVID-19

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Robert Boast, a homeless 60-year-old Toronto man with incurable prostate and colon cancer, told White Coat, Black Art that he is more frightened of catching COVID-19 than dying from cancer. Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care doctor, who is also managing Peel Region's COVID-19 homelessness response, says COVID-19 is hitting vulnerable populates like a "guided missle."