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Experts say incarcerated people should be among the first to receive the COVID vaccine.
But ICE has no plan to vaccinate detainees, an Insider investigation has found.
Experts raised concerns that thousands of detained immigrants were falling through the cracks.
When US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Giovannie Morrison in October, the pandemic was burning through his home state of California. Naturally, he feared catching COVID-19 in a crowded immigration detention center.
A music promoter before the pandemic, Morrison was living in the city of Roseville, near Sacramento, and working as a day laborer. He told Insider that he carried hand sanitizer and wore a face covering everywhere he went.
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Contract tracing and death statistics for Kern County patients were briefly visible due to a Kern County Public Health Department website glitch Friday morning.
The data leak revealed geographic information but no names.
The county’s dashboard showed detailed data for each case including incident numbers, ages, zip codes, the date of when the individual tested positive for COVID, whether the individual was hospitalized and when, as well as whether or not the individual survived.
The KCPH dashboard normally shows reported cases by day and zip code, county deaths, as well as other information.
There were also notes that included whether or not follow-ups were completed, or if it lost contact with the individual. Sometimes, those areas were left blank because the person had died. Other times, they were just left blank.