Pretty new BOP COVID-19 update page reports ugly new spike in COVID cases among federal inmates and staff

Sometime today, the federal Bureau of prisons updated its BOP’s COVID-19 Update page.  The new page now has a map that now shows the “34 BOP facilities and 6 RRCs affected nationwide” by COVID_19 cases.  The page also report that as “04/07/2020, there are 241 federal inmates and 73 BOP staff who have tested positive for COVID-19 nationwide. There have been 8 federal inmate deaths and 0 BOP staff member deaths attributed to COVID-19 disease.”  (Just two days ago, on April 5,  the page reported 138 federal inmates and 59 federal prison staffers had tested positive for the coronavirus).

This BOP page is now also reporting that “Since the release of the Attorney General’s original memo to the Bureau of Prisons on March 26, 2020 instructing us to prioritize home confinement as an appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BOP has placed an additional 615 inmates on home confinement.”

Meanwhile, the Daily Beast is reporting that “The Bureau of Prisons Just Bought a Ton of Hydroxychloroquine, Trump’s COVID-19 Miracle Drug“