Science has thrown us a lifeline : North Carolina prisons give COVID-19 vaccine to inmates and staff By Zoe Christen Jones States struggle with COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Inmates and staff at North Carolina s prison system began receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, officials said. The state s Department of Public Safety said it has received around 1,000 doses of Moderna Inc. s vaccine.
The vaccinations will be offered to prison healthcare workers, staff working in COVID-positive housing units, those who work with infected inmates, and inmates age 75 or older. The next in line will be inmates aged 65 and older based on availability.
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Gerald Kominski, a professor of health policy and management at UCLA, told me this week that the failure of Haven leaves all hope for healthcare reform in Washington’s hands. If three of the country’s most powerful companies couldn’t remedy things, he said, “maybe it’s time to acknowledge that government intervention really is the most effective way to control costs, achieve universal access and assure equity.”
“It just goes to the fact that social difficulties and all the things that come with autism really do make a difference in getting and holding on to a job,” says lead investigator Catherine Lord, distinguished professor of psychiatry and education at the University of California, Los Angeles. (UCLA’s Elaine Clarke was also quoted.)
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Debate has erupted over how to prioritize prisoners in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Six states have promised to put them ahead of other groups, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. The remaining states are either not prioritizing them or staying silent on what their plans are.
Like the decarceration debate that’s endured since April when the spread of the novel coronavirus started tearing through these places, there’s little consensus on what to do, despite the fact that illness in prison threatens all of us. On Dec. 15, Prison Policy Initiative reported that mismanagement of COVID-19 inside prisons led to at least 500,000 cases in the community over summer 2020 alone.