It echoes a call from the American Medical Association, which says because of the high risk among prisoners, the group is advocating for priority access to vaccines. Prisons are tinderboxes for infectious disease, Levenson said. And prisons and jails incubate and cede the virus back into the general community.
On Saturday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams acknowledged that prison populations are high risk. Once the virus gets in, it spreads like wildfire in these facilities and they should be considered a particularly vulnerable population, said Adams.
It s a concern for ProMedica Dr. Brian Kaminski, too. While he wouldn t single out any specific group of people, Kaminski argued the vaccines should go to those who are at the highest risk.
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