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applegrove

(118,683 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:18 PM Mar 2020

First Federal Inmate Tests Positive

First Federal Inmate Tests Positive

March 21, 2020 at 8:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/21/first-federal-inmate-tests-positive/

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“An inmate at a federal jail in New York City has tested positive for coronavirus, marking the first confirmed case in the federal prison system,” the AP reports.

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First Federal Inmate Tests Positive (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2020 OP

This is not good bluecollar2 Mar 2020 #1

how did he get it? Demonaut Mar 2020 #2

what exactly do we do when everyone in prison catches it? Takket Mar 2020 #3

Even on a cruise ship, Igel Mar 2020 #4

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)

1. This is not good

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:34 PM

Mar 2020

It can spread like wildfire in a detention facility...

Demonaut

(8,918 posts)

2. how did he get it?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:38 PM

Mar 2020

all prisons will be hit, or they will riot and be let out or escape

Takket

(21,577 posts)

3. what exactly do we do when everyone in prison catches it?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:39 PM

Mar 2020

you can't expect the guards to do their jobs............. there aren't medical resources to treat them en masse. Just lock the facility down, slip food under the door, and wait for it to pass?

Igel

(35,320 posts)

4. Even on a cruise ship,

Reply to Takket (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:06 PM

Mar 2020

not everyone caught it.

Looks like transmission is easier (in some contexts) and harder in (others) than assumed.

We'll see how it goes when we have more data, but the latest large report pushed the fatality rate down to 1.4 and it's likely it'll go lower when all's said and done. At that it's 14x as lethal as the flu.

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