California’s San Quentin State Prison, home to the state’s only death row, surpassed 1,000 active coronavirus cases on Monday in a disastrous outbreak that now encompasses about a third of the prison’s population. Gavin Newsom (D) said of the outbreak at San Quentin during his Monday news conference. “The current rate of infections at San Quentin tells us that the worst is yet to come,” he said at the time, when there were just 545 confirmed cases among San Quentin inmates. About 90 San Quentin employees have also been infected, CDCR data shows. He is the first known San Quentin inmate to die of COVID-19.

Source: Huffington Post June 30, 2020 00:45 UTC