{"id":379,"date":"2020-08-20T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=379"},"modified":"2020-08-21T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:50:07","slug":"mass-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-16-prisons-and-jails-six-jurisdictions-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/20\/mass-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-16-prisons-and-jails-six-jurisdictions-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in 16 Prisons and Jails \u2014 Six Jurisdictions, United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mass testing conducted among incarcerated or detained persons across 16 prisons and jails from 6 US jurisdictions (April 11-May 20, 2020) identified a total of 8,239 persons with SARS-CoV-2 among 16,392 individuals tested, representing a median 12-fold increase over the number of cases in each facility by earlier symptom-based testing. Prevalence in jails and prisons ranged from 0 to 87%, with a median prevalence of 29%. Median prevalence was three times higher in dormitory-based compared to cell-based housing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hagan et al. (Aug 21, 2020). Mass Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in 16 Prisons and Jails \u2014 Six Jurisdictions, United States, April\u2013May 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933a3<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass testing conducted among incarcerated or detained persons across 16 prisons and jails from 6 US jurisdictions (April 11-May 20, 2020) identified a total of 8,239 persons with SARS-CoV-2 among 16,392 individuals tested, representing a median 12-fold increase over the number of cases in each facility by earlier symptom-based testing. Prevalence in jails and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/20\/mass-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-16-prisons-and-jails-six-jurisdictions-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,26,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-prisons","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}