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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ANDREW T. RODRIGUEZ, No. 2:21-cv-1332-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, et al., 14 Defendants.

16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. After the court dismissed plaintiff’s original complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, he filed an amended complaint (ECF No. 10) which the court must now screen.1 Screening Order Plaintiff alleges he became deathly ill with COVID-19 while he was detained at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center. His first claim is that defendant correctional officers Xiong, Hale, Singe, and Lee (“defendants”) housed him in a packed dorm setting (as opposed to a cell) and he was surrounded by pods housing infected inmates. Undoubtedly, “[p]risons present

1 Federal courts must engage in a preliminary screening of cases in which prisoners seek redress from a governmental entity or officer or…