Marilyn MonHoe 11,011 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Doctors associated with Harvard and Johns Hopkins called for an investigation into health care at border facilities in a letter to members of Congress Thursday. The lettercomes in response to the deaths of six migrant children either in government custody or soon after their release. At least three of the children died from the flu, according to autopsies. The doctors wrote in their letter that flu deaths "are fairly rare events for children living in the United States." Domestically, the U.S. experiences a rate of about one flu death per 600,000 children, according to the doctors. Among migrants children in custody, the numbers are far higher, they wrote. "This rate of death from influenza appears to be substantially less than the rate in detention facilities, with at least three deaths in as many as 200,000 children detained — many for less than the length of the season," they wrote. "This is alarming, but unfortunately not surprising, given the way the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security are responding to the crisis on the border," DeLauro said in a statement to CBS News. "Even under the best circumstances, the flu is a dangerous threat to people. This Administration continues to exacerbate this crisis to an untenable degree. Much of the problem stems from the lack of coordination, the lack of basic standards of care and procedures to ensure children are screened for health issues, treated quickly and safely, and get the proper vaccinations." Prior to September 2018, it had been a decade since any children had died in Border Patrol custody, according to government figures. Since then, five Guatemalan children and one child from El Salvador have died either in custody or soon after their release to hospitals. The most recent death was that of 16-year-old Carlos Hernandez Vásquez, just a week before what would have been his 17th birthday. The boy had been apprehended a week earlier in the Rio Grande Valley, near the southern U.S. border. When unaccompanied migrant children are taken into Border Patrol custody, the agency is mandated to notify HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) via an online portal within 72 hours. Instead, Vasquez remained for six days at the crowded McAllen Processing Center. A month earlier, 2-year-old Wilmer Vasquez succumbed to complications from the flu in a hospital bed. The earliest verified case of a migrant child's death from the flu shortly after being in government custody was on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2018. In that case, 8-year-old Felipe Alonzo diedjust six days after being apprehended with his father by Border Patrol. Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors-call-for-investigation-after-3-migrant-children-in-custody-die-of-flu/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,842 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 ... Well... I... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALGAYDO 35,060 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 For all intents and purposes, this administration is killing brown kids. Letting these kids die of prevsntable diseases because you want to torture them by denying them proper hygiene is basically murder in my eyes. These are innocent kids. Let that sink in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwing 518 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 This just deplorable; totally preventable. There needs to be jail time and civil suits that go all the way around and from top to bottom. These kids deserve justice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn MonHoe 11,011 Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 16 minutes ago, ALGAYDO said: For all intents and purposes, this administration is killing brown kids. Letting these kids die of prevsntable diseases because you want to torture them by denying them proper hygiene is basically murder in my eyes. These are innocent kids. Let that sink in. Could you imagine the outrage if 6 white children died in government custody? The officials involved would’ve been investigated and fired within days. But there is a collective shrug when it’s brown children. Sometimes this country fvcking disgusts me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adakam 2 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 More deaths on the hands of republicans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,429 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 The flu. Just give them the same free shot given to us. Wtf is their problem? Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanxDream 2,049 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, PartySick said: The flu. Just give them the same free shot given to us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,429 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 19 minutes ago, Oshawott said: The flu shot's free here and offered at a lot of pharmacies and clinics For free Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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