Vaccination plus Decarceration - Stopping Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

Benjamin A Barsky1, Eric Reinhart1, Paul Farmer1

  • 1From the Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care, University of Pennsylvania (B.A.B.); the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy (B.A.B.) and the Department of Anthropology (E.R.), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Data and Evidence for Justice Reform (DE JURE), World Bank, Washington, DC (E.R.); the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (E.R.) - both in Chicago; the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital (P.E.F., S.K.) - both in Boston.

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