Editorial by Paul Simpson, Michael Levy and Tony Butler. Vol. 373, No. 859. The British Medical Journal.
April 7, 2021.
In most countries, the COVID-19 infection rate is consistently higher in prisons than in the community, including those with the largest prison systems: China, India, and the United States. Prisons and detention centres have two characteristics that lead to them being described as “epidemiological pumps”—high population density confinement and porous borders between the confined population and the community, crossed daily by staff. Vaccination is essential for this vulnerable group, and the civil society around them.
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