Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities

Felicia O Casanova; Alice Hamblett; Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein; Kathryn M Nowotny

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34409

Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jan 4;4(1):e2034409. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34409.

Authors

Felicia O Casanova¹, Alice Hamblett², Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein³, Kathryn M Nowotny⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
² Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
³ Center for Health Equity Research, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
⁴ Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Abstract

This cohort study describes the burden of coronavirus disease 2019 among people detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement compared with the US population.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Emigration and Immigration / legislation & jurisprudence*
Humans
Jails / statistics & numerical data*
Law Enforcement
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data*
Transients and Migrants / statistics & numerical data*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding