GAO report confirms border officials ignored CDC recommendation to give kids flu shots
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The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) failed to provide consistent medical care to detained people at its facilities after a number of children horrifically died under the agencyGAO report confirms border officials ignored CDC recommendation to give kids flu shots
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) failed to provide consistent medical care to detained people at its facilities after a number of children horrifically died under the agency’s watch in beginning in late 2018. This was despite being given over $110 million in emergency funding by Congress. Mirroring past reporting, the GAO also confirmed that border officials made a deliberate, inhumane decision to ignore a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to give detained people flu vaccinations following the flu death of one of those children. “CBP decided not to implement a recommendation from CDC to offer influenza vaccines to individuals in custody but did not document how it arrived at this decision,” the report said. Read more