The impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Elizabeth K. Singer (Author), Kevin Molyneux (Author), Khushmit Kaur (Author), Niathi Kona (Author), Gabriel Santos Malave (Author), Kim A. Baranowski (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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COVID-19 disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority groups as well as people in jails and immigration detention centers in the United States. Between April and August of 2020, the mean monthly COVID-19 case ratio for ICE detainees was 13.4 times that of the general U.S. population. This s...