Myers

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHRISTOPHER W. MYERS, Case No. 23-cv-01682-WHO (PR)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT

v. WITH LEAVE TO AMEND

S. POSSON, et al., Defendants.

12 INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Christopher W. Myers alleges prison officials at CTF-Soledad violated his Eighth Amendment rights by placing him in COVID quarantine. His 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint containing these allegations is now before me for review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a). Myers’s allegations fail to state an Eighth Amendment claim. According to the undisputed facts of the complaint, he was placed in quarantine the day after having tested positive for COVID. Though he tested negative on the first day he was in quarantine, his retention in quarantine for some days thereafter was a reasonable medical response, not deliberate indifference. Furthermore, Myers lists two defendants, but fails to allege specific facts showing that these persons were responsible for…