State health officials have been providing guidance during the Marshall County Jail’s recent COVID-19 outbreak. State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box didn’t have specifics on her department’s involvement during Wednesday’s press conference, but she stressed that state officials are “intimately engaged” any time a jail sees a surge in cases.
“We are working very closely, any time there’s an outbreak at the jail, with Dr. Kristen Dauss from the Department of Correction, with our local health department in each of those counties, and with our team here at the Indiana Department of Health,” Box explained, “not only to do additional testing, but to make sure how they can cohort those different individuals who are sick or test positive.”
More than 100 Marshall County Jail inmates recently tested positive. Sheriff Matt Hassel said this week that the entire jail population had been reorganized, and those considered high-risk were “doing fine.”
