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Abstract: 

This article summarizes two recent research articles that studied the impact of Covid-19 in facilities in Louisiana and New York. The studies were “Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Incarcerated and Detained Persons in a Correctional and Detention Facility — Louisiana, April–May 2020,” by Henry Njuguna, Megan Wallace, Sean Simonson, Farrell A. Tobolowsky, Allison E. James, Keith Bordelon, Rena Fukunaga, Jeremy A. W. Gold, Jonathan Wortham, Theresa Sokol, Danielle Haydel, Ha Tran, Kaylee Kim, Kiva A. Fisher, Mariel Marlow, Jacqueline E. Tate, Reena H. Doshi, and Kathryn G. Curran, published in 69 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 836 (July 3, 2020); and “A Case Study of the Westchester County New York’s Jail Response to COVID-19: Controlling COVID while Balancing Service Needs for the Incarcerated-A National Model for Jails,” by Kimberly Collica-Cox and Louis Molina, published in Victims & Offenders (published online October 2020).

Keywords: Serial Lab Testing for Covid-19; Infection Control in a Large Jail

Affiliations:  1: Pace University Law School.