Q: How does hospitalizations compare to gen pop?
A: We've never had more than 15 offenders in the hospital at a time due to COVID-19.
Right now we have 4 or 5 [It's actually 7 based on DPS's data online]
We're proud of our progress
Q: Have any eligible prisoner been unable to take vaccine due to having an active COVID infection?
A: There's been no one within the prison system who has been denied the vaccine so far due to active COVID infection.
Q: Ae you tracking the # of people who were eligible and unable to receive the vaccine due to an active COVID-19 infection? How many people are in this group?
A: Can't give clear timeline; if start seeing this we'll work on that. Comms office will let you know when decision made
A (cont): Every single offender in our custody that wants to take the vaccine has the opportunity to take the vaccine.
I think we're won't see disparate results, but we'll see how folks
Q: What are you doing to reach historically marginalized populations? If you're not getting this data, what are you doing to make sure you reach these pops?
A: We have a captive population. We can actively reach everyone in our custody... (cont)
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