Spotlight on Jails: COVID-19 Mitigation Policies Needed Now

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  • Wurcel, A.G.
    • Other Affiliation: Tufts Medical Center
  • Dauria, E.
    • Other Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
  • Zaller, N.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  • Nijhawan, A.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Beckwith, C.
    • Other Affiliation: Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital
  • Nowotny, K.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Miami
  • Brinkley-Rubinstein, L.
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine
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  • To the Editor—In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare institutions and public health experts are mobilizing to develop mitigation protocols based on the experiences of other countries, including China, South Korea, and Italy. Compared to these countries, the United States has a higher incarceration rate, with 10.6 million people booked into jails each year. Jails pose a unique set of challenges to COVID-19 prevention, detection, and management mitigation that deserves immediate attention.
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  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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  • 71
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  • 15
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  • 891
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  • 892
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  • English
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  • 1537-6591
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  • NLM (Medline)

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