Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness
June 5, 2020
Incarceration And Its Disseminations: COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons From Chicago’s Cook County Jail
Category: Article Summary
Topic: Transmission
- Reinhart and Chen found that zip codes in Chicago with higher rates of arrest and released jail inmates had higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection, even after adjustment for race and poverty. The authors propose that arrest and pre-trial detention practices may contribute to SARS-CoV-2 spread.
Reinhart and Chen. (June 4, 2020). Incarceration And Its Disseminations: COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons From Chicago’s Cook County Jail. Health Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00652