AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Five inmates at Airway Heights Correction Center have died due to COVID-19 amid a large outbreak at the facility, according to the Washington State Department of Corrections.
Two of the five deaths announced on Friday, Feb. 5 occurred on Jan. 26 and 29. Both individuals died at community health care facilities and had "complex underlying medical conditions that required additional review and analysis of healthcare records to make a final determination," the DOC wrote in a press release.
The DOC also announced another death on Tuesday, Feb. 2. The individuals' next-of-kin and/or attorneys have been notified.
As of Thursday, Feb. 4, AHCC had 238 COVID-19 cases in the last 30 days among its incarcerated population, according to the Department of Corrections.
The most recent deaths at AHCC are the twelfth and thirteenth of Washington DOC inmates since the pandemic began.
At one point in December, 755 inmates had tested positive at AHCC, an estimated one-third of the incarcerated population at the facility.
