Environmental factors influencing COVID-19 incidence and severity

AK Weaver, JR Head, CF Gould… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors—including air pollution
and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment—and severe acute respiratory …

Mental and physical health morbidity among people in prisons: an umbrella review

L Favril, JD Rich, J Hard, S Fazel - The Lancet Public Health, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background People who experience incarceration are characterised by poor health profiles.
Clarification of the disease burden in the prison population can inform service and policy …

Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

ST Tan, AT Kwan, I Rodríguez-Barraquer, BJ Singer… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) breakthrough infections in
vaccinated individuals and reinfections in previously infected individuals have become …

The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults who experience imprisonment globally: A mixed methods systematic review

H Kim, E Hughes, A Cavanagh, E Norris, A Gao… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The prison setting and health status of people who experience imprisonment
increase the risks of COVID-19 infection and sequelae, and other health impacts of the …

The risk of COVID-19 infection in prisons and prevention strategies: a systematic review and a new strategic protocol of prevention

M Esposito, M Salerno, N Di Nunno, F Ministeri… - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
Health risks within prisons are well known and have worsened with the 2019 coronavirus
pandemic (COVID-19), becoming a public health emergency. To date, there are more than …

COVID-19 in carceral systems: a review

LB Puglisi, L Brinkley-Rubinstein… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
As with past pandemics of influenza, COVID-19 tore through US prisons and jails; however,
the COVID-19 pandemic, uniquely, has led to more health research on carceral systems …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons learned from COVID-19 response in correctional and detention facilities

C Waddell, A Meehan, M Schoonveld… - Emerging Infectious …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected persons held in and working in
correctional and detention facilities, causing facilities' traditional priorities to shift when …

Nursing home crowding and its association with outbreak-associated respiratory infection in Ontario, Canada before the COVID-19 pandemic (2014–19): a …

P Leece, M Whelan, AP Costa, N Daneman… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that crowding
in nursing homes is associated with high incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections, but this effect …

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of the Prison

S Maruna, G McNaull, N O'Neill - Crime and Justice, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Since the discovery of the “jail disease,” probably typhus, in the eighteenth century, health
experts have recognized that the prison is a near perfect incubator of contagious disease …

[HTML][HTML] A human rights framework for advancing the standard of medical care for incarcerated people in the United States in the time of COVID-19

B Saloner, GB Eber, CB Sufrin, C Beyrer… - Health and human …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the lack of resources and oversight that hinders
medical care for incarcerated people in the United States. The US Supreme Court has held …