“Covid-19 in US prisons is unlikely to be contained without implementation of more effective infection control,” say the researchers.
Prisoners are 5.5 times more likely to get Covid-19 and three times more likely to die from it, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins and UCLA published today inAn armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer escorts a condemnedinmate at San Quentin State Prison's death row on August 15, 2016 in San Quentin, California, where over one-third of inmates now have coronavirus.
Close confinement, limited PPE and increased risk of cardiac and respiratory conditions makes prison populations especially vulnerable to coronavirus, says the report.
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