CoronaCrime #101 - COVID-19 in the USA

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll on lives, illness, and economic devastation and it is having diverse effects on violence and crime. Daily Prevention News publishes weekly a Corona Crime Issue dedicated to collecting related news and information.

1. There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID
   Sometime in the next few weeks, the official death toll for the two-year COVID pandemic in the U.S. will reach one million. Despite being the wealthiest nation on the planet, the U.S. has continued to have the most COVID infections and deaths per country, by far, and it has the highest per capita death rate of any wealthy nation. Source: Scientific American
2. The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25
   Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. In the latest episode, they explain the new official methods to determine if pandemic safe zones or danger areas discuss what other pandemics looked like when they were ending—and whether this one, at long last, is heading down a similar path. Source: Scientific American
3. Death Rate in Federal Prisons 20 Percent Higher Than Before COVID
   Nearly 300 federal prisoners have died from COVID-19, a count that does not include deaths in privately managed prisons, NPR reports. Bureau of Prisons officials have said since the beginning of the pandemic that they have a plan to keep the situation under control, but an NPR analysis suggests a far different story. Source: National Criminal Justice Association
4. State prisons and local jails appear indifferent to COVID outbreaks
   While some prison systems and local jails have maintained historically low populations, others have returned to pre-pandemic levels, despite the ongoing dangers of COVID-19 and new, more transmissible variants. Source: Prison Policy Initiative

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