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- Early detection of infectious diseases, like SARS-CoV-2, is crucial for public health, and the study aimed to evaluate how positive cases in jails relate to local infection rates.
- Data was collected from health records and public sources to compare 250 COVID-19 cases in a Santa Clara County jail within 14 days of admission with 141,841 reported cases in the county overall from March 2020 to October 2021.
- The findings revealed a strong correlation (0.785) between positive SARS-CoV-2 cases in the jail and subsequent cases in the surrounding community, suggesting that testing in jails can help monitor and detect disease transmission locally.
Article Abstract
Early detection of infectious disease transmission is an important public health tool. We sought to evaluate how positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases, identified within 14 days of admission to a jail setting, are linked to local county incidence. Data were extracted from the electronic health record and publicly accessible websites. We compared positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 identified in the Santa Clara County (SCC) jail within 14 days of admission (250 cases) with positive cases reported in SCC (141,841 cases) between March 15, 2020, and October 2, 2021. There was a strong, positive correlation between cases of SARS-CoV-2 identified within 14 days of jail admission and SCC cases the following week ( = .785). Our findings show that admission SARS-CoV-2 testing data from jails may be useful for detecting disease transmission in the surrounding community.
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