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Collected Item: “California prison begins testing all employees”

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California prison begins testing all employees

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article

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Testing or lack there of has been a big part of the news cycle since covid reached the U.S. In the beginning a person could only gain access to a test if they met certain criteria. This severely limited the number of people tested and was done because the number of tests available was very low. Even people deemed essential workers, such as those working in the nations prison system, had trouble accessing tests.

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prison, incarcerated, testing

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-26/with-nine-inmates-at-chino-prison-dead-after-getting-covid-19-it-and-avenal-prison-require-all-staff-testing

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Richard Winton

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2020-05-26
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