Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1

. 2020 May 16;395(10236):1542-1543.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails

Justin T Okano¹, Sally Blower²

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¹ Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: sblower@mednet.ucla.edu.

PMID: 32423582
PMCID: PMC7190297
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1

Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails

Justin T Okano et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 16;395(10236):1542-1543.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Authors

Justin T Okano¹, Sally Blower²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: sblower@mednet.ucla.edu.

PMID: 32423582
PMCID: PMC7190297
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1

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The proportion of inmates that should be released early to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in a jail The mathematical expression for the R₀^wj of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and the parameter values used to generate the graph, are provided in the appendix. R₀^wj=within-jail basic reproduction number.

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1. Kajita E, Okano JT, Bodine EN, Layne SP, Blower S. Modelling an outbreak of an emerging pathogen. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2007;5:700–709. - PubMed
1. Los Angeles Almanac Los Angeles County Jail system by the numbers. http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr25b.php
1. Williams T, Weiser B, Rashbaum WK. ‘Jails are petri dishes’: inmates freed as the virus spreads behind bars. March 30, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-prisons-jails.html
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[1] Kajita E, Okano JT, Bodine EN, Layne SP, Blower S. Modelling an outbreak of an emerging pathogen. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2007;5:700–709. - PubMed

[2] Kajita E, Okano JT, Bodine EN, Layne SP, Blower S. Modelling an outbreak of an emerging pathogen. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2007;5:700–709. - PubMed

[3] Los Angeles Almanac Los Angeles County Jail system by the numbers. http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr25b.php

[4] Los Angeles Almanac Los Angeles County Jail system by the numbers. http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr25b.php

[5] Williams T, Weiser B, Rashbaum WK. ‘Jails are petri dishes’: inmates freed as the virus spreads behind bars. March 30, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-prisons-jails.html

[6] Williams T, Weiser B, Rashbaum WK. ‘Jails are petri dishes’: inmates freed as the virus spreads behind bars. March 30, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-prisons-jails.html

[7] Alimohamadi Y, Taghdir M, Sepandi M. The estimate of the basic reproduction number for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Prev Med Public Health. 2020 doi: 10.3961/jpmph.20.076. published online March 20. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Alimohamadi Y, Taghdir M, Sepandi M. The estimate of the basic reproduction number for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Prev Med Public Health. 2020 doi: 10.3961/jpmph.20.076. published online March 20. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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