Epidemiology of COVID-19 Among Incarcerated Individuals and Staff in Massachusetts Jails and Prisons

Monik C Jiménez; Tori L Cowger; Lisa E Simon; Maya Behn; Nicole Cassarino; Mary T Bassett

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18851

Epidemiology of COVID-19 Among Incarcerated Individuals and Staff in Massachusetts Jails and Prisons

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Aug 3;3(8):e2018851. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18851.

Authors

Monik C Jiménez^{1

2

3}, Tori L Cowger^{3

4}, Lisa E Simon^{2

5}, Maya Behn¹, Nicole Cassarino¹, Mary T Bassett⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cohort study describes the COVID-19 burden among incarcerated individuals and staff in Massachusetts jails and prisons and assesses the association of COVID-19 case rates with decarceration and testing rates.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Massachusetts / epidemiology
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Prisoners / statistics & numerical data*
Prisons / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2

Grants and funding

K01 HL124391/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States