On January 14, a week before President Biden’s inauguration, then-Pentagon Deputy Attorney General William S. Castle recommended that medical professionals be authorized to offer the inmates vaccinations. He noted that the Pentagon has repeatedly claimed that detainees receive health care comparable to that offered to members of active service on the island, and that the level and type of treatment depends on, and is consistent with, the accepted medical standard. of care. ”
The US military base in Guantánamo has about 5,500 residents, including about 250 school-going children, and a foreign workforce of about 2,200 Jamaican and Filipino workers working under Pentagon contracts. The children are too young to be offered the vaccinations, but the foreign workers have been offered.
According to health officials at the base, as of April 1, about 400 adults were entitled to vaccines, and about 47 percent of those eligible did not take a single dose. Health officials there may or may not have quantified how many of the people affirmatively refused to get a shot, which was presented at a base ward that served as a bingo hall before the pandemic.
It is also not known how many people are infected with the coronavirus at the base, which is separated from a mining field by Cuba. The military acknowledged two cases in the first month, both service members recovering but then applying specific revelations to an eclipse.
What you need to know about the vaccination of Johnson & Johnson in the USA
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- On April 13, 2021, US health authorities called for an immediate halt to the use of the single-dose Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson after six recipients in the United States had a rare disease within one to three weeks after vaccination. .
- Al 50 state, Washington DC and Puerto Rico has temporarily stopped or recommended the use of the vaccine. The U.S. military, federal vaccination sites, and a number of private companies, including CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Walmart, and Publix, also suspended the injections.
- Less than one in a million Johnson & Johnson vaccinations are now being investigated. If there is indeed a risk of blood clots through the vaccine – which has not yet been determined – the risk is very low. The risk of getting Covid-19 in the United States is much higher.
- The interruption could hamper the country’s vaccination efforts at a time when many states are facing an increase in new cases and trying to address vaccine hesitation.
- Johnson & Johnson has also decided to delay the explosion of its vaccine in Europe amid concerns over rare blood clots. South Africa, devastated by a more contagious virus variant that emerged there, has also suspended the use of the vaccine. Australia has announced it will not buy any doses.
The military has managed to prevent a major outbreak there by requiring people coming from the United States to be quarantined for 14 days.
No trials have been held at the war court for more than a year, and almost none of the defense attorneys have traveled there to meet with the prisoners due to the pandemic. The International Red Cross has also canceled a series of visits to protect unvaccinated prisoners.
The few lawyers who traveled there and underwent the two-week quarantine reported that they then met their clients in conditions that, according to them, made communication virtually impossible. The detainees and visitors were kept many feet apart, separated by plexiglass barriers and protective clothing issued that only exposed their eyes. They spoke through masks and found it difficult to hear.