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Stanford Medicine researchers found that two-thirds of incarcerated residents in California who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine accepted at least one dose, an encouraging sign that other jails and prisons nationwide can offer the same protection for their vulnerable carceral populations.
The May 12 study, a part of the Stanford-CIDE Coronavirus Simulation Model team, examined both how the vaccine was rolled out in incarcerated populations and how many individuals chose to get the vaccine. The research started last December, when vaccinations began, with data collection cutting off in March of this year.
California prisons have rapidly rolled out the vaccines and achieved high uptake, the study showed. Two-thirds of 97,779 incarcerated residents were offered a vaccine dose, and 66.5% of them accepted at least one. There were especially high vaccine acceptance rates nearly 80% among the most medically vulnerable incarcerated res