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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
San Quentin Dentists Contributed To COVID Spread
The state鈥檚 workplace safety regulator has ordered San Quentin鈥檚 dental clinic to cease many of its operations, citing practices that have 鈥渃ontributed to the spread鈥 of COVID-19 in the state prison. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health order comes after a massive coronavirus outbreak at the Marin County facility, which has to date infected more than 2,200 incarcerated men and 277 employees and killed 26 prisoners and one correctional sergeant. (Cassidy, 9/3)
The prison in the San Francisco Bay Area is the California lockup hit hardest by the coronavirus. More than 2,200 inmates 鈥 about two-thirds of the prison population 鈥 have been infected, along with nearly 300 employees. Twenty-six inmates 鈥 including several on death row 鈥 have died from confirmed or suspected infections. (9/4)