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Coronavirus rates climb as officials hedge jail populations

Spectrum News 1, Jan. 14, 2021

January 14, 2021

Coronavirus rates climb as officials hedge jail populations

To help build its case, the ACLU asked Daniel Park, an assistant professor at UC Irvine and a specialist in infectious diseases, to visit all the area jails. “Every day there are people coming into the jail who are not tested. [Coronavirus] is going to get imported,” Park said. “There’s no way around it.”