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 H...
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| author | Sixtine O. Gurrey Lara B. Strick Lana K. Dov James S. Miller Monica Pecha Randy M. Stalter David L. Miller Brandon Marshall Alonso Pezo Salazar Laura P. Newman |
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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.
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| spelling | doaj.art-efa5105f3c3e417b9f24a34cd62fbb542024-04-04T00:34:34ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592024-04-013013172010.3201/eid3013.230777Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USASixtine O. GurreyLara B. StrickLana K. DovJames S. MillerMonica PechaRandy M. StalterDavid L. MillerBrandon MarshallAlonso Pezo SalazarLaura P. Newman 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. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/13/23-0777_articleCOVID-19tuberculosisrespiratory infectionsbacteriasevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SARS-CoV-2 |
| spellingShingle | Sixtine O. Gurrey Lara B. Strick Lana K. Dov James S. Miller Monica Pecha Randy M. Stalter David L. Miller Brandon Marshall Alonso Pezo Salazar Laura P. Newman Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA Emerging Infectious Diseases COVID-19 tuberculosis respiratory infections bacteria severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 |
| title | Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA |
| title_full | Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA |
| title_fullStr | Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA |
| title_short | Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA |
| title_sort | lessons learned from public health and state prison collaborations during covid 19 pandemic and multifacility tuberculosis outbreak washington usa |
| topic | COVID-19 tuberculosis respiratory infections bacteria severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/13/23-0777_article |
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