Two Out of Three California Prison Inmates Said Yes to COVID Vaccine — Auxxc.com

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News)

Sixty-seven percent of inmates in California prisons who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine have accepted at least one dose, a Stanford University study found.

“This is one of the largest state prison systems in the country, and if it can achieve high vaccination coverage among its incarcerated population, then the federal and other state prisons systems can and should do the same for the more than 2 million people that they currently incarcerate,” said study co-author Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, an associate professor of medicine.

The researchers also found that nearly 50% of those who initially turned down a COVID-19 vaccine accepted when it was offered again.

Lead study author Elizabeth Chin noted that prisons and jails are high-risk settings for COVID-19, and case and death rates far surpass those in the general population. Achieving and maintaining sufficient immunity to avoid large outbreaks will be challenging in these settings, she said in a Stanford news release.

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Originally published at http://auxxc.com on May 15, 2021.