U.S. Pauses Plan To Give COVID-19 Vaccine To Guantanamo Prisoners

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U.S. Pauses Plan To Give COVID-19 Vaccine To Guantanamo Prisoners

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U.S. Pauses Plan To Give COVID-19 Vaccine To Guantanamo Prisoners
None of the 40 prisoners held at the detention center have received the vaccination, according to the Pentagon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is backing off for now on a plan to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to the 40 prisoners held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby said in a tweet Saturday that the Defense Department would be “pausing” the plan to give the vaccination to those held at Guantanamo while it reviews measures to protect troops who work there.

Kirby said no prisoners had yet received the vaccination. The plan drew some criticism after The New York Times reported that the vaccination of prisoners would start in the coming days.

“We’re pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection protocols,” Kirby said. “We remain committed to our obligations to keep our troops safe.”

The U.S. military announced earlier this month that it planned to offer the vaccine to prisoners as it vaccinated all personnel at the detention center.

None of the 40 prisoners held at the detention center have received the vaccination, according to the Pentagon.

At the time, U.S. Southern Command said it expected to have enough vaccine for all of the approximately 1,500 personnel assigned to the detention center. It said that the vaccine would be offered to prisoners but did not plan to reveal how many actually received it because of medical privacy regulations.

There have been no reported cases of coronavirus among the detention center prisoners. Early in the pandemic the U.S. military stopped reporting cases at individual bases for security reasons.

The U.S. opened the detention center in January 2002 to hold detainees suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban. Those who remain include five men facing a trial by military commission for their alleged roles planning and aiding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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Believe it or not these last prisoners have still not have their trial 20 years on !! In case their're REAL Combatants they've had their punishment already, in case they're no Combatants they're an example of the dehumanizing way the US treats Prisoners.
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