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 vom: 02. Apr., Seite S17-S20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

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

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Themen:

Bacteria
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Coronavirus disease
Correctional facilities
Disease outbreaks
Journal Article
Prisons
Public health practice
Respiratory infections
Review
SARS
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
State government
Tuberculosis
United States
Viruses
Washington
Zoonoses

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 03.04.2024

Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3201/eid3013.230777

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370511301