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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TIMOTHY MITCHELL, No. 2:20-cv-2132-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER DEVON BELL, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff is a county jail inmate proceeding without counsel and in forma pauperis in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. After the court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s amended complaint, plaintiff has filed a second amended complaint (ECF No. 13), which is screened below.1 The allegations in the second amended complaint do not materially differ from those in the first amended complaint. In the first amended complaint, plaintiff alleged that unknown jail officials knowingly housed him with an inmate infected with the COVID-19 virus. As a result, plaintiff contracted the virus, did not receive any medical treatment, and continues to experience

1 Congress mandates that district courts engage in a preliminary screening of cases in which prisoners seek redress from a governmental entity or officer or employee of a…