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Ohio prisons chief walks back claim that 96% of prison COVID-19 cases were asymptomatic

BY: - June 17, 2020

The state prisons chief Tuesday walked back an apocryphal claim she has repeated that 96% of the thousands of COVID-19 cases at two prisons came from asymptomatic inmates.  While the data are fluid on such a new disease, the CDC’s “best estimate” for modelers and public health officials is that about 35% of COVID-19 infections […]