Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails

Affiliations

¹ Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: sblower@mednet.ucla.edu.

Justin T Okano et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 16;395(10236):1542-1543.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31015-1. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

¹ Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Center for Biomedical Modeling, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: sblower@mednet.ucla.edu.

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