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![Continued circulation of COVID-19 means continued risk for reinfection, which can significantly impact health, including setting back the bas line of those who already have Long COVID. [highlight begins] There is little that people in prison can do to protect themselves; some can access surgical masks, but higher-quality masks that do more to prevent airborne contagion remain unavailable.
Other layers of protection, like isolating from those who may be sick, are completely out of a person's control in a prison setting. [/end highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cdoz5axt3jacndeh63raarqf/bafkreiaf6jko4x5l27zuxsnhfq3plrfrfovwwalvj5idnvppqaevbscqae)
![While no systematic data are available, experts expect the Long COVID rate in prisons is high. In a 2024 preprint shared in medRxiv, a team of researchers estimated that 9,100 to 11,000 people in California alone developed Long COVID as a result of prison transmission, using data that went only through early 2022. [highlight] The disease's burden "is disproportionately on Black and Indigenous people in comparison to the state as a whole," they wrote. [/end highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cdoz5axt3jacndeh63raarqf/bafkreiaxzt5f7lcdhcig6y2illngsnr6pjifzmemmn5mjvdk2y46bos4ge)
