'Shocking, Heartbreaking' Coronavirus Outbreak In CA Prison Alarms Health Officials
Health officials are working to keep a fast-moving coronavirus outbreak at California's San Quentin State Prison from spreading into the broader Bay Area community.Health officials are working to keep a fast-moving coronavirus outbreak at California's San Quentin State Prison from spreading into the broader Bay Area community.
"I'm concerned that we will see hundreds of more cases," he said."Even if a small fraction of those people become so sick that they need to be hospitalized, it will stress our regional hospital system." California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas declined NPR's interview requests on the outbreak and the prison's testing failures.
The center is calling on the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to expedite early release for thousands of vulnerable inmates. Afterward, the physicians warned the federal court-appointed receiver helping to oversee prison health care that"San Quentin is an extremely dangerous place for an outbreak, everything should be done to decrease the number of people exposed to this environment as quickly as possible."
Despite the challenges of decarceration, Sears and his colleagues said quickly and carefully reducing the prison's population may be the only viable solution."I know this is a politically charged topic, but this is a matter of public health and human rights" for inmates, staff, their loved ones"and the surrounding community in the Bay Area," he said.
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