Opinion: California jails are slow to share COVID-19 infection and vaccination data [Opinion]
among employees of sheriff’s departments, a subset of whom work inside these jails. Unfortunately, so far, these totals only include positive cases among incarcerated people in 31 counties, and employees in 23 counties. Here is what we learned from the data and our data collection efforts.
Infections among correctional staff are also reason for concern, with at least 15,000 employees at sheriff’s departments in the aforementioned nine counties testing positive at some point in the pandemic. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department hasAccess to vaccination data has proven to be challenging in spite of public health orders that would require sheriff’s departments to document employees’ vaccination statuses as a part of the implementation process.
The Sheriff’s Department in Ventura County offered to provide the vaccination rate but with a hefty price tag to compensate for the staff time needed to gather the information.
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