Rapid Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in a State Prison After Introduction by Newly Transferred Incarcerated Persons — Wisconsin, August 14–October 22, 2020

Hershow, Rebecca B.; Segaloff, Hannah E; Shockey, Abigail C.; Florek, Kelsey; Murphy, Sabrina K; DuBose, Weston; Schaeffer, Tammy L; Powell, Jo Anna; Gayle, Krystal; Lambert, Lauren A.; Schwitters, Amee; Clarke, Kristie E N; Westergaard, Ryan P.

doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7013a4

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“…Postal Service Delivery Sequence File provides a nearly complete list of all addresses in the country, and its use in defining our sampling frame will reduce bias compared to other non-representative, but easier to implement, sampling schemes. In our study, we did not enroll persons without housing, and excluded those living in nursing homes, homeless shelters and prisons, where rates of infection were extremely high [ 25 , [60] , [61] , [62] , [63] , [64] ]. Thus, our estimates will not represent infection among these groups.…”

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Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area

Lindan

Desai

Boothroyd

et al. 2022

Annals of Epidemiology

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area

Lindan

Desai

Boothroyd

et al. 2022

Annals of Epidemiology

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“…The remaining 14 papers (31%) were empirical studies. These included one retrospective cohort study, 36 three crosssectional survey, 37,46,60 one genome sequencing study, 38 one morbidity and mortality report, 39 three mathematical modelling papers, [40][41][42] four secondary data analysis papers 43,44,61,62 and one qualitative study. 45 Most included studies were published in countries of the Global North.…”

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“…45 Most included studies were published in countries of the Global North. More than half (n=25, 57%) were published in the United States; [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62] five were published in the United Kingdom; [63][64][65][66][67] two were from Brazil; [68][69] and there was one publication each from Africa, 70 Canada, [71][72][73] and South Korea. 46 An additional nine papers focused on various world regions.…”

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COVID-19 vaccine for people who live and work in prisons worldwide: A scoping review

Ismail

Tavoschi

Moazen

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Overcrowding, poor conditions, and high population turnover make prisons highly susceptible to COVID-19. Vaccination is key to controlling COVID-19, yet there is disagreement regarding whether people who live and work in prisons should be prioritised in national vaccination programmes. To help resolve this, we critically examine the extent, nature, and quality of extant literature regarding prioritisation of COVID-19 vaccinations for people who live and work in prisons. Using a scoping review as our methodological framework, we conducted a systematic literature search of 17 databases. From 2,307 potentially eligible articles, we removed duplicates and screened titles and abstracts to retain 45 articles for review and quality appraisal. Findings indicated that while most countries recognise that prisons are at risk of high levels of COVID-19 transmission, only a minority have explicitly prioritised people who live and work in prisons for COVID-19 vaccination. Even among those that have, prioritisation criteria varies considerably. This is set against a backdrop of political barriers, such as politicians questioning the moral deservingness of people in prison; policy barriers, such as the absence of a unified international framework of how vaccine prioritisation should proceed in prisons; logistical barriers regarding vaccine administration in prisons; and behavioural barriers including vaccine hesitancy. We outline five strategies to prioritise people who live and work in prisons in COVID-19 vaccination plans: (1) improving data collection on COVID-19 vaccination, (2) reducing the number of people imprisoned, (3) tackling vaccine populism through advocacy, (4) challenging arbitrary prioritisation processes via legal processes, and (5) conducting more empirical research on COVID-19 vaccination planning, delivery, and acceptability. Implementing these strategies would help to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the prison population, prevent community transmission, improve vaccine uptake in prisons beyond the current pandemic, foster political accountability, and inform future decision-making.

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“…Much attention has been paid to outbreaks in prisons and the communities in which they are located (Hershow et al 2020;Hooks and Sawyer 2020;Lewis et al 2021;Ollove 2020;Schumaker 2020). Many rural communities have embraced prisons as an economic development strategy, and as a result, the nation's prisons are disproportionately located in rural areas (Lichter and Ziliak 2017).…”

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Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Mortality Rates

Sun¹,

Cheng²,

Monnat³

2021

Preprint

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Since late-2020, COVID-19 mortality rates have been higher in rural than in urban America, but there has also been substantial within-rural heterogeneity. Using data from USA Facts, we compare COVID-19 mortality trends between U.S. urban (nonmetro) and rural (metro) counties from March 2020 to May 2021. We then compare trends within rural counties across different types of labor markets defined by county economic dependence (farming, mining, manufacturing, government, recreation, and nonspecialized) and by metropolitan adjacency. As of May 22, 2021, the cumulative COVID-19 mortality rate was 199.3 per 100,000 population in rural counties compared to 175.8 in urban counties. Net of controls, rural counties experienced a 3% higher average daily increase in COVID-19 mortality rates than urban counties over the study period. Rural mortality rates have been highest in the South, Southwest, and Great Plains. Both overall and within rural counties, mortality rates were highest in farming-dependent counties and lowest in recreation-dependent counties. Interaction models demonstrate that the protective buffer for recreation counties was even stronger for remote rural counties (those not adjacent to metro areas.

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Rapid Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in a State Prison After Introduction by Newly Transferred Incarcerated Persons — Wisconsin, August 14–October 22, 2020

Cited by 34 publications

References 6 publications

Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area

Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area

COVID-19 vaccine for people who live and work in prisons worldwide: A scoping review

Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Mortality Rates

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