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Covid: Prioritise prisoners for coronavirus vaccine

BBC News By Rachel Schraer image copyrightGetty Images Prisoners have an elevated risk of dying of Covid and should be prioritised for vaccination, along with prison staff, say researchers from University College London (UCL). The risk is driven both by greater exposure to the virus, and by having generally poorer health to start with. And Covid has meant many prisoners have been living in near-total isolation. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said its current priority list would prevent 99% of Covid deaths. As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age, Prof Wei Shen Lim, the JCVI s Covid-19 chairman said.

Prisoners three times more likely to die from Covid than general population, research suggests

Prisoners three times more likely to die from Covid than general population, research suggests May Bulman © Provided by The Independent Prisoners are three times as likely to die from coronavirus as the general population and should be prioritised in the vaccine roll-out, according to academic researchers. There were 118 deaths related to Covid-19 among people in prisons in England and Wales between March 2020 and February 2021. This represents a risk of dying 3.3 times higher than that of people of the same age and sex in the community, according to a research team at University College London (UCL). UCL’s study compared the higher deaths rates in prisons with that of the general population, accounting for the age and sex structure of people in prisons.

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