The US won't provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps

[Recursion]

Source: CNBC

The U.S. won’t be vaccinating migrant families in holding centers ahead of this year’s flu season, despite calls from doctors to boost efforts to fight the infection that’s 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

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Jesus, even cartoon villains understand how infectious diseases work. It's not like a flu outbreak cares where it starts.

[Vinca]

1. Well, it kind of figures. They just took contraception away from poor women to prevent abortion.

[leftieNanner]

2. The cruelty is a feature

not a bug.

Even if it's a flu bug.

[LittleGirl]

5. Bingo! n/t

[Recursion]

9. Right, but, I mean, it won't stay in the facility

I just meant even cartoon villains know not to infect themselves.

[Bradical79]

28. True, but I wouldn't be too happy if I were a scumbag gaurd either

And of course it speeads and mutates.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. That's great!

Do we have any smallpox blankets we can give them too? Maybe some thermometers from Ebola victims?

[Hekate]

4. What you said

[leftieNanner]

6. How about we give the teen boys the Mumps?

Which would potentially make them sterile.

Two birds - one stone.

[FakeNoose]

11. Right - they're the ones bringing in the germs

Let's sit back and watch the next catastrophe happen, rather than provide basic care for these poor people.

[hlthe2b]

7. F__king MORONS! I knew they were ignorant as hell but even a first grader knows viruses don't

stop at the border.

I am just beyond words. May they all rot in the hell of their own making.

[Recursion]

13. In a good year the flu vaccine is about 80% effective

Which means 1 in 5 guards would get it in case of an outbreak.

[sdfernando]

8. This is a death sentance for some!

The U.S. Government is now admitting that it is going to murder political refugees and asylum seekers!

[Historic NY]

10. So what about the employee's working in or around the people???

[atreides1]

12. That's simple

The administration doesn't care about the employee's!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. They can get the vaccine. The immigrants can't.

But some people will get the disease anyhow.

This is not only cruel, it's stupid and dangerous.

[spike jones]

14. Anne Frank and her sister Margot died of typhus in March 1945, during imprisonment at Bergen-B

[Perseus]

15. Pharma won't like that, besides the fact they are exposing all these people

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]

16. This is genocide.

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]

17. You say "genocide" like it's a BAD thing!

To Miller, Mulvaney, Kushner, Bannon, it's a goal.

[karin_sj]

18. They want them to die

That's the only thing you can conclude from this. I'm so f***ing disgusted by these monsters.

[ancianita]

19. Homeland Security certainly doesn't want to secure the border states, does it. Vaccination is

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]

20. He accused them of bringing diseases, now he is doing everything in his power to make sure they do.

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]

21. Sounds like genocide to me

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/children.htm

[Doug.Goodall]

22. Anyone ever heard of the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu)?

This is a setup for the flu to go through the concentration camps at the border and 'eliminate' Trump's problem.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Hear of it?

My grandfather died of it in 1918, when my father was 7 years old.

[Peace06]

23. Lawmakers

DO SOMETHING! ASAP!

[AKing]

24. Thus providing a perfect incubation scenario for the flu virus to morph into a new strain....

that can infect people whether they were vaccinated or not. #TrumpPandemic

[SpankMe]

25. Flu vaccines are just under $12 each

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]

29. Another brilliant idea from the dotard

Yeah let's give the flu a place to incubate.

[procon]

30. Republicans don't provide healthcare to impoverished

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]

31. So they want to close

More cases because the applicant died.

[Hotler]

32. Selfish assholes. nt