{"id":38439,"date":"2020-07-22T07:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=38439"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:07:15","slug":"us-prisoners-have-higher-mortality-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/38439","title":{"rendered":"US prisoners have higher mortality rates from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/><\/b>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYFIRST\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">A research letter to JAMA has reported that US prisoners in federal and state prisons had higher adjusted risks of COVID-19-related mortality compared to the general US population.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">By 6 June 2020, there had been 42,107 cases of COVID-19 and 510 deaths among 1,295,285 prisoners with a case rate of 3,251 per 100,000 prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Crude COVID-19 death rates were 39 vs 29 deaths per 100,\u202f000 in prisoners vs general population respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">After adjusting for lower age in prisoners, the death rate in the prison population was 3.0 times higher than the US general population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reference<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Saloner B et al. COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons. JAMA, research letter. DOI:10.1001\/jama.2020.12528. (8 July 2020).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2768249\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2768249<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This report was first published on 12 July 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base A research letter to JAMA has reported that US prisoners in federal and state prisons had higher adjusted risks of COVID-19-related mortality compared to the general US population. By 6 June 2020, there had been 42,107 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-transmission","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}