January 19, 2021

COVID-19 Dynamics in an Ohio Prison

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): modeling, prison

A retrospective study of the April 2020 outbreak at the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio showed rapid, widespread infection, with nearly 80% of inmates infected within three weeks of the first reported case. The authors suggest three scenarios that could have given rise to the outbreak: 1) a single initially infected inmate with a basic reproduction number, R₀, greater than 14; 2) a super-spreading event with an R₀ = 3; or 3) undetected virus circulation among inmates prior to April.

KhudaBukhsh et al. (Jan 15, 2021). COVID-19 Dynamics in an Ohio Prison. Pre-print downloaded Jan 19 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.21249782