Effectiveness of interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission in a large urban jail: a model-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aim to estimate the impact of various mitigation strategies on COVID-19 transmission in a US jail beyond those offered in national guidelines.

Design

We developed a stochastic dynamic transmission model of COVID-19.

Setting

One anonymous large urban US jail.

Participants

Several thousand staff and incarcerated individuals.

Interventions

There were four intervention phases during the outbreak: the start of the outbreak, depopulation of the jail, increased proportion of people in single cells and asymptomatic testing. These interventions were implemented incrementally and in concert with one another.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The basic reproduction ratio, R₀ , in each phase, as estimated using the

SUBMITTER: Malloy GSP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893212 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature