Author: Barnert, Elizabeth; Ahalt, Cyrus; Williams, Brie
Title: Prisons: Amplifiers of the COVID-19 Pandemic Hiding in Plain Sight. Cord-id: if3bwk3i Document date: 2020_5_14
ID: if3bwk3i
Snippet: On February 29, 2020, nearly half of incident cases (233 of 565) of COVID-19 reported in Wuhan, China, were from the city's prison system. A separate prison outbreak, 450 miles away, in Shendong, China, was traced to officials who had visited Wuhan and infected seven prison guards and 200 inmates.1 Modern prisons have faced infectious outbreaks but none at the scale of COVID-19's. On March 26, 2020, the United States reported its first death of an incarcerated patient, in Georgia, and New York C
Document: On February 29, 2020, nearly half of incident cases (233 of 565) of COVID-19 reported in Wuhan, China, were from the city's prison system. A separate prison outbreak, 450 miles away, in Shendong, China, was traced to officials who had visited Wuhan and infected seven prison guards and 200 inmates.1 Modern prisons have faced infectious outbreaks but none at the scale of COVID-19's. On March 26, 2020, the United States reported its first death of an incarcerated patient, in Georgia, and New York City jails reported an infection rate seven times higher than in the rest of the city, a current US epicenter of COVID-19. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print May 14, 2020: e1-e3. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2020.305713).
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