280 - An Update on Incarcerated People, COVID-19 and Vaccines, and New Insights About Pregnant Inmates
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Many of the largest clusters of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are in prisons, jails, and detention centers—places that have not been prioritized for vaccine rollouts. New data also shows that there are thousands of people who are pregnant being admitted to these facilities each year. Dr. Chris Beyrer returns to the podcast to give an update on COVID and prisons, and Dr. Carolyn Sufrin talks about the needs of pregnant people behind bars and how this is further complicated because pregnancy is a risk factor for more severe disease from COVID-19.
KEYWORDS: vaccine distribution; decarceration; maternal health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
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| 0:47.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:51.1 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Chris Beirer and Carolyn Suffern of Johns Hawkins |
| 0:55.4 | for an update on the play of incarcerated people during the time of COVID-19, including pregnant |
| 1:01.7 | women who remain in custody even though they are at significantly higher risk for severe COVID. |
| 1:07.4 | Let's listen. Carolyn Suffren and Chris Byer, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:12.3 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:13.6 | Good to be with you. |
| 1:15.0 | So today we're going to talk about COVID and incarceration. |
| 1:20.3 | We're going to get an update on where we are with that and where vaccines may fit in. |
| 1:25.1 | Chris, I'd like to start with you. |
| 1:26.8 | Can you talk to us a little about what the situation is right now with COVID and incarcerated |
| 1:31.3 | people? |
| 1:32.3 | Well, it's really been a tough situation. |
| 1:35.3 | We thought early on, because of what had happened in Wuhan, that prisons and jails detention |
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