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Department officials said in a news release Thursday they were taking several additional steps to fight the spread of the disease, including requiring jail staff to provide proof of vaccination or undergo weekly testing. During a Thursday night forum for candidates running to replace Sheriff Bill Gore in , Undersheriff Kelly Martinez, who oversees the day-to-day operations of the department, said weekly testing began this week for jail staff.
The moves come as the rising COVID cases inside the county jails mirrors a countywide trend of rising cases. County officials said Wednesday that daily new case totals topped 1, Tuesday and Wednesday, and hospitals have continued see increases in their combined daily COVID censuses.
In the jail system, the worst outbreak is at the George F. The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties and two law firms filed a class-action lawsuit in March seeking to force Sheriff Bill Gore to do more to control the spread of the virus in the county jail system, such as testing more inmates, increasing the number of vaccinations and maintaining safe distances between inmates.
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Veteran pilots gather in Rancho Bernardo to swap stories. The department said 39 inmates are now sick with COVID — up from 28 last Tuesday — just under 1 percent of the jail population of 4, All but one of the inmates who are sick are housed at the San Diego Central Jail.
Amber Baggs in an email. No one from the Central Jail has been hospitalized since Oct. Congregate-living facilities like jails, hospitals and senior-living homes are among the most vulnerable spaces for the virus to spread.
Sheriff Bill Gore has implemented a series of protocols aimed at reducing the spread of the disease, but inmates have repeatedly told The San Diego Union-Tribune that those rules are followed sporadically and violators face few repercussions.
To date, the department has reported 1, infections in its inmate population since the pandemic was declared in March So far, two people in San Diego County custody have died from the virus. The family of a third inmate, Mark Armendo, filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he died in August after contracting COVID at the Vista jail, but the county disputes that assertion. The cases continue even though the department has reduced the jail population by about 25 percent from a high of about 5, people before the start of the pandemic.
The facility held 1, people on Oct. A former inmate named Terry Jones sued Gore earlier this year, asking a judge to force the sheriff to either vaccinate enough inmates to slow the spread of COVID or reduce the jail population to allow for social distancing.
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