In four state prison systems - Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia - 96% of 3,277 inmates who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic, according to interviews with officials and records reviewed by Reuters.
State prison systems in Michigan, Tennessee and California have also begun mass testing - checking for coronavirus infections in large numbers of inmates even if they show no sign of illness - but have not provided specific counts of asymptomatic prisoners.
In Michigan, state authorities said "a good number" of the 620 prisoners who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic.
A total 3,837 inmates tested positive for the coronavirus in 15 of those facilities.
Most state prisons did not provide the age or other demographic details of those who tested positive for the coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 people globally, including more than 53,000 in the United States.
Mass testing at two Arkansas prisons - the Cummins Unit in the city of Grady and the Community Correction Center in the state capital Little Rock - found 751 infected inmates, almost all of them asymptomatic, the state corrections department said.
On Tuesday, the prison tested all 400 inmates in the geriatric ward and plans to test the rest of the facility by the end of the week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX
State prison systems in Michigan, Tennessee and California have also begun mass testing - checking for coronavirus infections in large numbers of inmates even if they show no sign of illness - but have not provided specific counts of asymptomatic prisoners.
In Michigan, state authorities said "a good number" of the 620 prisoners who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic.
A total 3,837 inmates tested positive for the coronavirus in 15 of those facilities.
Most state prisons did not provide the age or other demographic details of those who tested positive for the coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 people globally, including more than 53,000 in the United States.
Mass testing at two Arkansas prisons - the Cummins Unit in the city of Grady and the Community Correction Center in the state capital Little Rock - found 751 infected inmates, almost all of them asymptomatic, the state corrections department said.
On Tuesday, the prison tested all 400 inmates in the geriatric ward and plans to test the rest of the facility by the end of the week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX
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