Vaccination plus Decarceration — Stopping Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

With the rollout of Covid vaccines, public debate regarding health in jails and prisons has increasingly shifted from decarceration toward vaccination of incarcerated people. But several factors suggest that vaccination alone won’t be enough to stop carceral outbreaks.

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine Jg. 384; H. 17; S. 1583 - 1585
Hauptverfasser: Barsky, Benjamin A, Reinhart, Eric, Farmer, Paul, Keshavjee, Salmaan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 29.04.2021
Schlagworte:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - prevention & control
COVID-19 Vaccines
Deinstitutionalization
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Humans
Imprisonment
Jails
Pandemics
Population
Prevention
Prisoners
Prisons
Public health
Public safety
SARS-CoV-2 - physiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
United States
Vaccination
Virus Replication
United States
United States > US
ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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Zusammenfassung:With the rollout of Covid vaccines, public debate regarding health in jails and prisons has increasingly shifted from decarceration toward vaccination of incarcerated people. But several factors suggest that vaccination alone won’t be enough to stop carceral outbreaks.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMp2100609