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AP analysis: Federal executions likely a COVID superspreader |
2021-02-06 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team had the virus. So did media witnesses, who may have unknowingly infected others when they returned home because they were never told about the spreading cases. Records obtained by The Associated Press show employees at the Indiana prison complex where the 13 executions were carried out over six months had contact with inmates and other people infected with the coronavirus, but were able to refuse testing and declined to participate in contact tracing efforts and were still permitted to return to their work assignments. Other staff members, including those brought in to help with executions, also spread tips to their colleagues about how they could avoid quarantines and skirt public health guidance from the federal government and Indiana health officials. The executions at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, completed in a short window over a few weeks, likely acted as a superspreader event, according to the records reviewed by AP. It was something health experts warned could happen when the Justice Department insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#10 murcek, I have no problem with telling the woke crowd to go fuck themselves. |
Posted by: Chris 2021-02-06 19:19 |
#9 Why did executioners wear hoods? To avoid doxxing and their friends threatened. |
Posted by: magpie 2021-02-06 15:10 |
#8 SuperSpreader Equals Death to America (Persian: مرگ بر آمریکا Marg bar Āmrikā) Yup and Trump is always to blame = Left's Boogie Man = |
Posted by: Chotch Fillmore5270 2021-02-06 13:09 |
#7 You hate evil? Then you are just another "h8ter" to the woke crowd... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-02-06 10:01 |
#6 Last time I ck'd, there was no sin in the hating of evil. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-06 09:41 |
#5 I hate all these fucking ppl. |
Posted by: Chris 2021-02-06 09:11 |
#4 The Federal Complex at Terre Haute must be evil. It removes criminals, rapists, and murderers from society. A few are removed permanently. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-06 07:34 |
#3 I just can't believe the stupid egesta that gets published. Meanwhile, Trump rallies and the Sturgis, SD, motorcycle rally were supposed to be super-spreader events. Get the F out of here! |
Posted by: Clem 2021-02-06 05:44 |
#2 America Pravda has spoken. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-02-06 04:44 |
#1 Superspreader is the new Nazi. Or possibly fascist. Whatevs — if you’re called it you are the worst ever and should just go kill yourself, you bully! /ugh. Little totalitarians bitches of all genders, the lot of ‘em. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-06 02:00 |