Currently, the nation’s top five Covid-19 hot spots are all correctional facilities, according to data collected by The Times. The number of infected inmates and workers has topped 70,000 — the count doubled between mid-May and mid-June — and there have been at least 627 virus-related deaths.
Once the disproportionate impact of the epidemic was revealed to the American political and financial elite, many began to regard the rising death toll less as a national emergency than as an inconvenience.
273 detainees, 321 correction personnel, and 53 jail health staffers have tested positive for coronavirus as of Sunday, according to the Correction Department. Additionally, one correction officer and one investigator have died after contracting the virus.
The restriction on liquids, gels, and aerosols came around in 2006, and limits those items to 3.4 ounces if carried through security checkpoints and onto planes.