The US won't provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps
Source: CNBC
The U.S. wont be vaccinating migrant families in holding centers ahead of this years flu season, despite calls from doctors to boost efforts to fight the infection thats killed at least three children at detention facilities in the past year.
In general, due to the short-term nature of CBP holding and the complexities of operating vaccination programs, neither CBP nor its medical contractors administer vaccinations to those in our custody, a Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
At least three children who were held in detention centers after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico have died in recent months, in part, from the flu, according to a letter to Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., from several doctors urging Congress to investigate health conditions at the centers.
The U.S. had previously gone almost a decade without any children dying while under U.S. immigration custody.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/the-us-wont-vaccinate-migrant-children-against-the-flu-at-border-camps.html
Jesus, even cartoon villains understand how infectious diseases work. It's not like a flu outbreak cares where it starts.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)leftieNanner
(15,062 posts)not a bug.
Even if it's a flu bug.
LittleGirl
(8,278 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I just meant even cartoon villains know not to infect themselves.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)And of course it speeads and mutates.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)Do we have any smallpox blankets we can give them too? Maybe some thermometers from Ebola victims?
Hekate
(90,551 posts)leftieNanner
(15,062 posts)Which would potentially make them sterile.
Two birds - one stone.
FakeNoose
(32,577 posts)Let's sit back and watch the next catastrophe happen, rather than provide basic care for these poor people.
hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)stop at the border.
I am just beyond words. May they all rot in the hell of their own making.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Which means 1 in 5 guards would get it in case of an outbreak.
sdfernando
(4,923 posts)The U.S. Government is now admitting that it is going to murder political refugees and asylum seekers!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)atreides1
(16,066 posts)The administration doesn't care about the employee's!!!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,584 posts)But some people will get the disease anyhow.
This is not only cruel, it's stupid and dangerous.
spike jones
(1,674 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Stephen Miller should be sent back in time to the Nazi era and dropped in the middle of a concentration camp, I don't think the Nazi's would take him as one of them, no matter how sick his mind is.
Shoonra
(518 posts)The flu has already made its way into the kiddie concentration camps (and probably also the adult 'detention facilities'), yet the govt withholds the medicine that could prevent a devastating epidemic among the captive population. 'Genocide' is not too severe a term to describe this policy.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,321 posts)To Miller, Mulvaney, Kushner, Bannon, it's a goal.
karin_sj
(808 posts)That's the only thing you can conclude from this. I'm so f***ing disgusted by these monsters.
ancianita
(35,932 posts)an investment in the health of US citizens as much as asylum seekers. So this should tell the whole country what HS thinks of the homeland and security. It doesn't.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Then he will complain they are bringing diseases. Wonder if those agents at the facilities are thinking of the risk they are taking when he does this.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Doug.Goodall
(1,241 posts)This is a setup for the flu to go through the concentration camps at the border and 'eliminate' Trump's problem.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)My grandfather died of it in 1918, when my father was 7 years old.
Peace06
(248 posts)DO SOMETHING! ASAP!
AKing
(511 posts)that can infect people whether they were vaccinated or not. #TrumpPandemic
SpankMe
(2,956 posts)We are responsible for the health of these people as long as we're holding them. Denying them this simple and effective preventative is a violation of decency.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,738 posts)Yeah let's give the flu a place to incubate.
procon
(15,805 posts)American citizens either. There's an obvious pattern here. With a policy of sustained attrition through disease and death of the undesirable elements of society, Republicans -- like the Nazis who proceeded then -- can finally create their new libertaian utopia.
Vaccinate the deserving people. Crowd the wretched poor into camps, prisons, slums and ghettos and the Republicans have the perfect laboratory for waves of disease epidemics that will kill off large percentages of the people they deem unworthy.
treestar
(82,383 posts)More cases because the applicant died.