Coronavirus found among workers at facilities for migrant children: report

[riversedge]

Source: the hill






By John Bowden - 03/23/20 08:18 PM EDT



Three workers at two facilities in New York currently involved in housing undocumented migrant children have reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said Monday that the workers are employed at two unidentified migrant detention facilities, which, it added, have consulted local health officials about "appropriate quarantine measures" for the workers, according to CBS News.

A dozen migrant children at the facilities have also been tested for the virus, according to CBS, and none have tested positive so far. Five have tested negative, and the rest are awaiting results.

One foster parent helping care for migrant children in Washington state has also tested positive for the disease, according to ORR. Washington state and New York have seen some of the highest levels of the coronavirus in the U.S. as officials have struggled in recent weeks to prevent the virus from spreading.

In New York, children receiving medical care while being housed in detention facilities no longer leave the facility to see a doctor due to new "tele-health" services reportedly implemented in the state, as well as in California.


Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/489146-coronavirus-found-among-workers-at-facilities-for-migrant-children

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[flibbitygiblets]

1. This was just a matter of time.

Sitting there like ducks, no way to avoid getting infected. God help those poor children.

[Texaswitchy]

2. Poor children.

Fuck Trump

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Oh, the irony.

45 claimed immigrants were bringing diseases across out borders. Instead, it turns out they're going to catch potentially lethal diseases from the administration that imprisoned them.

[McKim]

4. This Retired Migrant Teacher is Very Angry!

This retired Migrant Teacher is very angry! How could they do this to my students and their families?