Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

June 18, 2020

The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in a Large Urban Jail

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  • [pre-print, not peer reviewed] Malloy et al. used a stochastic dynamic transmission model to estimate various mitigation strategies in response to a COVID-19 outbreak in a large urban US jail among staff and prisoners. They found that reducing population, single celling, and testing asymptomatic persons could prevent approximately 83% of projected cases and hospitalizations and 89% of deaths over 83 days. 

Malloy et al. (June 18, 2020). The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in a Large Urban Jail. Pre-print downloaded June 18 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.16.20133280