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  • California jails, prisons on alert for coronavirus. Fear it will ‘spread like wildfire’

    Source: https://www.sacbee.com/news/californ...240962761.html

    California jails, prisons on alert for coronavirus. Fear it will ‘spread like wildfire’
    By Jason Pohl
    March 06, 2020 11:55 AM

    Hundreds of people confined to a single space every day. People — many with existing health problems — come and go, bringing untold illness and viruses inside. Scores of inmates and staff sharing chow halls and recreation yards, cell blocks and bathrooms.

    Jails and prisons are petri dishes.

    As coronavirus spreads across the country, health experts say it’s a matter of time before COVID-19 finds its way into county jails and prisons, where containing the spread of disease can be difficult...
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