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Volume 30, Supplement - Infectious Diseases and Carceral Health

SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Surveillance

Development and Evaluation of Surveillance System for Identifying Jail-Associated COVID-19 Cases in Minnesota, USA, 2022

Leah J. Porter1Comments to Author , Erica Rapheal1, Rebecca Huebsch, Tiana Bastian, Trisha J. Robinson, Hanna Chakoian, Karen G. Martin2, and Jennifer Zipprich2

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COVID-19 case data from MEDSS and jail detention data from MSSS. Exclusions were made before matching case and detention data by using an inexact matching threshold. A total of 380 unmatched cases had been flagged by KAM and classified as persons being detained in jail; further review verified 131 of those detentions, for a total of 2,394 COVID-19 cases among adults detained in jail. KAM, keyword and address matching; MDH, Minnesota Department of Health; MEDSS, Minnesota Electronic Disease Surveillance System; MSSS, Minnesota Statewide Supervision System; SAS, SAS Institute Inc., https://www.sas.com.

Figure 1. COVID-19 case data from MEDSS and jail detention data from MSSS. Exclusions were made before matching case and detention data by using an inexact matching threshold. A total of 380 unmatched cases had been flagged by KAM and classified as persons being detained in jail; further review verified 131 of those detentions, for a total of 2,394 COVID-19 cases among adults detained in jail. KAM, keyword and address matching; MDH, Minnesota Department of Health; MEDSS, Minnesota Electronic Disease Surveillance System; MSSS, Minnesota Statewide Supervision System; SAS, SAS Institute Inc., https://www.sas.com.

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Minnesota Department of Health, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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