Posted on 01/02/2021 10:44:50 PM PST by KingofZion
California’s prison system, which has been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus, has started vaccinating some inmates — but none so far at the 25 prisons that have been most overwhelmed by infections, including San Quentin, Avenal State Prison and the California Institution for Men.
Elizabeth Gransee, a spokeswoman for J. Clark Kelso, a court-appointed official who oversees prison health care in California, said on Wednesday that the prison system had decided to concentrate its vaccination efforts at facilities where “people are at significant risk of becoming infected or severely ill from the coronavirus.”
But the facilities chosen — the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, the California Health Care Facility in Stockton and the California Medical Facility in Vacaville — have had far fewer infections and deaths than most other state prisons.
*** In all, 25 California prisons have individual caseloads surpassing 1,000. The largest outbreak has been at overcrowded Avenal, in Central California, which has logged more than 3,500 infections. That is one of the nation’s largest known coronavirus clusters.
During the past month, infections at the state’s prisons have nearly doubled and deaths have increased by more than 30 percent, according to a New York Times database tracking coronavirus cases in the nation’s correctional facilities.
The state’s handling of the virus has come under repeated criticism. Recently, planned transfers of medically vulnerable inmates from San Quentin to other prisons were abruptly halted after public objections. This spring, another inmate transfer ultimately led to more than 2,600 infections of inmates and guards and 28 inmate deaths at San Quentin.
The crowded, unsanitary conditions in prisons have made them epicenters for the virus. ***
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Prisoners should be 2nd last in line, just in front of illegals. But not in Kalifornia...
What about the elderly?
“California’s prison system, which has been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus,”
I don’t get that. You would think that prisoners would be the best AR “staying home” and “social distancing”. They have nowhere to go
Felons are a priority?
What planet are we living on? This certainly can’t be planet
Earth in a Western nation!
Are we in some berg in Africa? Are we in some Central or
South American nation under a Tin-Pot dictator?
What the Sam Hell is going on with our leader’s decision
making process?
We have at risk groups that have kept their noses clean
their whole lives, and here they are having to take a
back seat to prison inmates.
I swear, it’s just utterly ridiculous what takes place
these days.
Where’s the tar? Where’s the feathers? Where’s the rail?
Where’s the town?
I’m so sick of this “S”.
This is medical malpractice.
Some people should be looking for new jobs after noon
Monday.
What? Prison inmates being inoculated before Illegal aliens? What is California coming to?
40% of White people and 65% of Californians like this and vote for it every 2 years.
40% of White people and 65% of Californians like this and vote for it every 2 years.
It’s for the most dangerous, sociopathic, depraved criminals: People who had company over for Thanksgiving.
Think of them as lab rats. I’d rather have them work out the bugs on prisoners rather than me.
Now this to them is important the elderly no.
What makes you think they voted for it? They have probably been stealing elections in California for a very long time......
Newsom told correctional facilities that masks weren’t required.
“This is outrageous! Apparently I need to get arrested to get a shot. “
You can have mine.
Notice where the concern is here: Not that we are diverting vaccine from First Responders; vulnerable Seasoned Citizens; Health Care Professionals; Teachers; etc.... But which felons are vaccinated first.
They have to keep their crew healthy other wise the votes don’t come out right for them.
I don’t think that 65% pays any attention to the issues. They
just go and vote for the Ds, and that’s their idea of
due diligence.
Meanwhile in California this happened.
#BREAKING: The coronavirus outbreak at Kaiser Permanente, San Jose Medical Center after a well-meaning staff member pranced through the Emergency Department in an air-powered costume on Christmas Day has swelled to 51 cases, health officials say.
What about the elderly?
Californicator Governor, Che Fidel Gruesome, with his roll out of the vaccine has basically said, “$crew the elderly! Vaccinate the deserving prisoners!”
That thought runs through a lot of old Conservative minds everyday.
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