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Article: Mixed signals on inmate flu shots
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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The White House sought yesterday to quash a budding controversy
over terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay getting swine flu vaccine
sooner than many Americans.
"There is no vaccine in Guantanamo, and there's no vaccine on the
way to Guantanamo," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told
reporters.
He contradicted a spokesman at the US naval base at Guantanamo
Bay, who said that guards and then detainees were set to receive
the vaccinations later this month. That prospect set off Obama
administration critics, who noted that with suppliers behind on
delivering the vaccine, Americans have been lining up for the
inoculations.
Army Major James Crabtree, a Guantanamo spokesman, had
acknowledged ...