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Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance in California State Prisons

2021; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 385; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmc2105282

1533-4406

Elizabeth T. Chin, David Leidner, Theresa Ryckman, Yiran E. Liu, Lea Prince, Fernando Alarid‐Escudero, Jason R. Andrews, Joshua A. Salomon, Jeremy D. Goldhaber‐Fiebert, David M. Studdert,

Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare

To the Editor: Prisons and jails are high-risk settings for Covid-19, with case and mortality rates far exceeding those in the general community. 1More incarcerated people have died from Covid-19 in U.S. correctional facilities in the past year than died by capital punishment in the past 70 years. 2Some states, including California, have prioritized incarcerated people for vaccination.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) provided anonymized data at the person-day level for all California prison residents from December 22, 2020, when the CDCR vaccination program began, through March 4, 2021.The data, which are described in the Supplementary Appendix (available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org) and elsewhere, 3 included variables that indicated which residents were offered doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) or mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine and which residents accepted.Our goal was to calculate the percentage of residents who accepted at least one dose among the residents who were offered doses and to use multivariable logistic regression analysis to estimate the prob-