People incarcerated in US prisons have been disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. That prisons are such efficient superspreading environments can be attributed to several known factors....
This study aims to characterize the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison and to describe what made San Quentin so vulnerable to uncontrolled transmission. ...
San Quentin California State Prison is experiencing a rapidly evolving COVID-19 (SARSCoV-2) outbreak with profoundly inadequate resources to keep it from developing into a full-blown local epidemic and health care crisis in the prison and surrounding communities. ...
In summer 2020, a multidisciplinary team of academics and health professionals conducted an on-site evaluation of the April-May 2020 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at California Men’s Colony (CMC), located in San Luis Obispo (SLO) County, California. ...
Our goal is the describe and recommend policies that may protect and promote physical and mental health among people who are incarcerated, including the prevention and control of COVID-19....
COVID-19 is ravaging US prisons. Prison residents and staff must be prioritized for vaccination, but a rapidly mutating virus and high rates of continued spread require an urgent, coordinated public health response....
