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Texas is spending $45 million on new coronavirus tests that prisoners are administering to themselves

Title (Dublin Core)

Texas is spending $45 million on new coronavirus tests that prisoners are administering to themselves

Description (Dublin Core)

"The state purchased 300,000 oral swab tests from a months-old California company. So far, only highly-infected prisons are using them for mass testing." The test has a 10% rate of false negatives. This test was given a rapid approval by the FDA and they have said anyone with symptoms and a negative test should be retested. The worry is without accurate testing of most inmates that the virus will spread widely and quickly due to unsanitary and cramped conditions.
incarceration, prison, social distancing, testing, FDA, oral swab, false negative, Texas, Greg Abott

Date (Dublin Core)

May 14, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jolie McCullough

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/14/texas-prisons-coronavirus-tests-curative/
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/14/texas-prisons-coronavirus-tests-curative/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Texas Tribune

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Healthcare
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Social Distance
English Government Federal
English Government State
English Conflict

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
FDA
testing
false negative
Texas
Greg Abbott

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Image of a male doctor holding a sign which reads I stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us.Doctor asking us to stay home
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/13/2020
08/02/2022
09/25/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/14/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on August 7, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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