{"id":6270,"date":"2021-03-09T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:25:14","slug":"covid-19-in-the-california-state-prison-system-an-observational-study-of-decarceration-ongoing-risks-and-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/covid-19-in-the-california-state-prison-system-an-observational-study-of-decarceration-ongoing-risks-and-risk-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 in the California State Prison System An Observational Study of Decarceration Ongoing Risks and Risk Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> In 9 California prisons that experienced major COVID-19 outbreaks, risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection included living in a dormitory vs. in a cell (2.5-fold risk) and living in a room with residents who participated in out-of-room labor vs. other rooms (1.6-fold).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By the end of the study, 18% had high COVID-19 risk scores, among whom nearly 40% lived in dormitory settings, and 15% lived in rooms with 10 or more occupants. The observational study also found that the incarcerated population in the state decreased by 19% between March to October 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Chin et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). Covid-19 in the California State Prison System An Observational Study of Decarceration Ongoing Risks and Risk Factors. Pre-print downloaded Mar 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252942\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252942<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In 9 California prisons that experienced major COVID-19 outbreaks, risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection included living in a dormitory vs. in a cell (2.5-fold risk) and living in a room with residents who participated in out-of-room labor vs. other rooms (1.6-fold).\u00a0 By the end of the study, 18% had high COVID-19 risk&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/covid-19-in-the-california-state-prison-system-an-observational-study-of-decarceration-ongoing-risks-and-risk-factors\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-prisons","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}