COVID-19 and the coming epidemic in US immigration detention centres

Affiliations

¹ Yale University School of Medicine, AIDS Program, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gomez, Mexico City 06720, Mexico. Electronic address: Carlos.franco-paredes@cuanshutz.edu.
³ Division of Global Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁵ Massachusetts General Hospital Asylum Clinic, Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Jaimie P Meyer et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;20(6):646-648.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30295-4. Epub 2020 Apr 15.

¹ Yale University School of Medicine, AIDS Program, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gomez, Mexico City 06720, Mexico. Electronic address: Carlos.franco-paredes@cuanshutz.edu.
³ Division of Global Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁵ Massachusetts General Hospital Asylum Clinic, Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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