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
Table 4
Results of investigating the 380 COVID-19 cases classified by KAM as persons detained in jail who did not have a detention recorded in MSSS for their specimen date, Minnesota, USA, 2022*
Category | No. (%) cases |
---|---|
Detention confirmed with other records | 131 (34.5) |
Specimen date outside of detention period | 131 (34.5) |
Jail staff misclassified as detained | 80 (21.1) |
Unable to determine | 38 (10.0) |
*KAM, keyword and address matching; MSSS, Minnesota Statewide Supervision System. †After matching COVID-19 case data with jail detention data, 380 cases remained that had been flagged by KAM tools during 2022 and classified as persons detained in jail. Those cases were individually reviewed to determine their correct classifications.
Minnesota Department of Health, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.