Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA

The large COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons in the Washington (USA) State Department of Corrections (WADOC) system during 2020 highlighted the need for a new public health approach to prevent and control COVID-19 transmission in the system’s 12 facilities. WADOC and the Washington State Department of Health (WADOH) responded by strengthening partnerships through dedicated corrections-focused public health staff, improving cross-agency outbreak response coordination, implementing and developing corrections-specific public health guidance, and establishing collaborative data systems. The preexisting partnerships and trust between WADOC and WADOH, strengthened during the COVID-19 response, laid the foundation for a collaborative response during late 2021 to the largest tuberculosis outbreak in Washington State in the past 20 years. We describe challenges of a multiagency collaboration during 2 outbreak responses, as well as approaches to address those challenges, and share lessons learned for future communicable disease outbreak responses in correctional settings..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Emerging Infectious Diseases - 30(2024), 13, Seite 17-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sixtine O. Gurrey [VerfasserIn]
Lara B. Strick [VerfasserIn]
Lana K. Dov [VerfasserIn]
James S. Miller [VerfasserIn]
Monica Pecha [VerfasserIn]
Randy M. Stalter [VerfasserIn]
David L. Miller [VerfasserIn]
Brandon Marshall [VerfasserIn]
Alonso Pezo Salazar [VerfasserIn]
Laura P. Newman [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bacteria
COVID-19
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicine
R
Respiratory infections
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Tuberculosis

doi:

10.3201/eid3013.230777

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ098704559