A group of physicians say the Trump administration ignored their offer to pilot a free flu clinic for detained migrants and asylum seekers in the U.S., despite flu infections being responsible for at least three deaths of migrant children in federal custody during the 2018 flu season.
Earlier this month, physicians sent a letter to then-acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Health and Human Services (HHS) department Secretary Alex Azar, requesting to hold an "influenza vaccine clinic" for detained migrants free of charge.
"Flu is a preventable illness," the letter dated to November 5 and signed by seven physicians from across four states, including the three physicians behind the activist group Doctors for Camp Closure, which has advocated against the use of detention centers to house migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, states.
Yet, it continues, "flu infections were responsible for at least 3 child deaths...in federal custody during the 2018 flu season, which is 9 times the mortality incidence of the general pediatric population. In our professional medical opinion, this alarming mortality rate constitutes an emergency which threatens the safety of human lives, particularly of children."
I don't know his reasoning - spite maybe?The Trump administration ignored the offer of a free flu clinic for migrants despite the deaths of three children, physicians say
I guess some children's deaths are acceptable or should be a punishment? I don't know why anyone would not give flu vaccines, they save lives.
Google it.I guess some children's deaths are acceptable or should be a punishment? I don't know why anyone would not give flu vaccines, they save lives.
...sigh.... as with most government policies for the last century, and as with most corporate policies, sigh..... as with most suffering the last century and this century, intentional, or allowed intentionally (could have been relieved).As with most of Trump's immigration policies, the suffering is intentional.
Google it.
The soldiers who received the spanish flu shots over 100 years ago, died.
Hey, they’re Mexicans, right? Why should they get a freebie?The Trump administration ignored the offer of a free flu clinic for migrants despite the deaths of three children, physicians say
I guess some children's deaths are acceptable or should be a punishment? I don't know why anyone would not give flu vaccines, they save lives.
Bet you have no source for that, correct?hmmm.... biased source?
I read a dozen years ago, that ten or twelve soldiers died BEFORE they left the clinic, from the shots, and that more people died from the shots than from the disease (as has happened perhaps frequently since then)...
Millions of dollars of course, were at stake =- billions perhaps, so what could be done ?
simple, re-write history. cover it up... and so it was.....
Google it.
The soldiers who received the spanish flu shots over 100 years ago, died.
If the government, pharmakeia(which has tried to ban the nutrition in carrots!) ,Reminds me of a "joke" that Limbaugh used to make (maybe still does), that everyone who has ever eaten a carrot has or will die. I guess we need to ban carrots.
MedPageToday said:Four physicians and two others protesting their inability to vaccinate migrant detainees at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) headquarters here were arrested on Tuesday for failing to comply with federal orders to disperse.
Members of the groups chanted slogans and carried banners and signs calling on federal officials to let them administer the vaccinations to those inside. The vaccines were purchased with financial donations.
The Trump administration ignored the offer of a free flu clinic for migrants despite the deaths of three children, physicians say
I guess some children's deaths are acceptable or should be a punishment? I don't know why anyone would not give flu vaccines, they save lives.
The Trump administration ignored the offer of a free flu clinic for migrants despite the deaths of three children, physicians say
I guess some children's deaths are acceptable or should be a punishment? I don't know why anyone would not give flu vaccines, they save lives.
A Christmas Carol said:"Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
NYT said:Three Treasury Department economists have published a working paper finding that these notices increased health insurance sign-ups. Obtaining insurance, they say, reduced premature deaths by an amount that exceeded any of their expectations. Americans between 45 and 64 benefited the most: For every 1,648 who received a letter, one fewer death occurred than among those who hadn’t received a letter.
In all, the researchers estimated that the letters may have wound up saving 700 lives.
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