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A 67-year-old person held at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut died of COVID-19 in December 2020, after being sent to an outside hospital for treatment. A family member of another person held in the prison's medical isolation unit told Fox61 that conditions there were unsanitary and that the virus spread quickly through the unit. The Connecticut Department of Correction said it follows CDC guidelines and had centralized COVID-positive patients at that unit.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The news report says the person died of COVID-19 after being sent to an outside hospital, and a family member of another person in the medical isolation unit said conditions there were unsanitary.
Reported by: news reporting on the death.