An 8-year-old kid from Guatemala in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol died from the flu last December. Subsequently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that the Border Patrol should conduct an immunization program. The Border Patrol refused. Hundreds of detainees and some Border Patrol personnel contracted the flu. Two more kids have died.
The Border Patrol still has no plans to vaccinate the migrants.
Information for this post is from Robert Moore, “Border Patrol rejected flu shots for migrants,” Allentown Morning Call, (Nov. 27, 2019), p. 11.
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