CDC finds Cook County sheriff, staff successfully stemmed rising tide of COVID-19 cases in jail

[mucifer]

Even to an outsider’s eye, however, the drop in COVID-19 cases at the jail is significant. In March and April, the jail counted more than 900 cases among detainees and staffers, and seven detainees died at local hospitals after testing positive.

But as of Tuesday, only 11 detainees out of about 4,800 are positive, Dart said, and eight or nine of them entered the jail with the virus.

“We’re testing at the door now,” he said. “You could literally say being in the jail is one of the safest places to be right now.”

Detainees are tested upon intake, kept separate from the general population for two weeks and tested again before moving to a regular tier, said Dr. Chad Zawitz, lead physician for infectious diseases at the jail and one of the paper’s authors.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-cdc-cook-county-jail-study-20200715-or4zoyranzf2dmg5fz6wzhwgem-story.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Wow. If that's true, it's a model for how we can

reduce the virus in the entire country.

[ret5hd]

2. Cool! Send those "connected" inmates that want out...

because of Covid to Cook County jail!

[Thekaspervote]

3. Much of the thx goes to Gov Pritzker...happy to be in a blue state where someone is in charge

[murielm99]

4. He isn't getting nearly enough credit

for how well Illinois is doing.