Flattening the curve for incarcerated populations - Covid-19 in jails and prisons

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 22, 2020, Pages 2075-2077

  Akiyama, Matthew J ^a   Spaulding, Anne C ^b   Rich, Josiah D ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLATTENING THE CURVE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PRISONER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUARANTINE; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; UNITED STATES; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; PROCEDURES; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PRISONERS; PRISONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85085083708     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2005687     Document Type: Review

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