Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2021)

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Prisons, England, 2020

  • Wendy M. Rice,
  • Dimple Y. Chudasama,
  • James Lewis,
  • Francis Senyah,
  • Isaac Florence,
  • Simon Thelwall,
  • Lisa Glaser,
  • Maciej Czachorowski,
  • Emma Plugge,
  • Hilary Kirkbride,
  • Gavin Dabrera,
  • Theresa Lamagni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.204920
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 8
pp. 2183 – 2186

Abstract

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Using laboratory data and a novel address matching methodology, we identified 734 cases of coronavirus disease in 88 prisons in England during March 16–October 12, 2020. An additional 412 cases were identified in prison staff and household members. We identified 84 prison outbreaks involving 86% of all prison-associated cases.

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