Collected Item: “19 of the 20 largest COVID clusters are prisons or jails.”
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19 of the 20 largest COVID clusters are prisons or jails.
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images and article
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This Tweet draws attention to the huge outbreak of Covid within the correctional facilities of the US. The accompanying article explains where the outbreaks started, have traveled to, and where they are now. It also states that the largest outbreaks have been in nursing homes, correctional facilities, and food processioning plants.
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incarceration, prison, outbreak, cluster, jails, Covid
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https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1299471863127707648, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
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David Menschel and The New York Times
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2020-08-28