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Biden
Administration Set to Give COVID Vaccine to 40 Terrorists At Guantanamo
Bay, Including 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
By The Scoop
Published January 29, 2021 at 4:17pm
The administration of President Joe Biden is set to administer the coronavirus vaccine
to terrorist suspects at Guantánamo Bay as early as “next week,”
according to multiple reports, while Americans wait for their chance to
obtain the vaccine.
“The Pentagon will offer coronavirus vaccinations to inmates at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba by as soon as next week,”Fox News reported on Thursday, citing defense officials privy to the matter.
“The 40 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military prison will be
offered vaccines ‘on a voluntary basis’ because consent is required to
administer a treatment that has yet to receive full FDA approval,” it
added.
Separately, the New York Times
reported that federal prosecutor Clayton Trivett Jr., wrote to the
defense lawyers of inmates held at the US military base — including
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has boasted of masterminding the 9/11
attacks that killed roughly 3,000 Americans in 2001 — that “an official
in the Pentagon has just signed a memo approving the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine to the detainee population in Guantánamo.”
The Times report added: “Medical workers at the US naval base began
vaccinating the 6,000 residents on Jan. 8, including the 1,500 troops
assigned to the detention operation. But the Trump administration had
declined to say whether prisoners would be vaccinated.”
Vccinations of Guantanamo Bay prisoners could begin “next week”
according to reports, just days after the new Democrat president warned
that it will take “months”
for majority of Americans to be inoculated for coronavirus even after
the administration of former President Donald Trump already left the new
administration with at least two working and FDA-approved vaccines.
“The brutal truth is, it’s going to take months before we can get the majority of Americans vaccinated – months,” Biden said Tuesday.
“In the next few months, masks, not vaccines, are the best defense
against COVID-19. Experts say that wearing masks from now just until
April would save 50,000 lives that otherwise would pass away if we don’t
wear these masks,” he added.
Biden said, however, that “most American adults will have access to a vaccine by the end of the summer.”
To date, the US government has administered more than 26 million
doses, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention — to be credited mostly to the previous administration as
Biden only took over last January 20.
Earlier this week, the Democratic president said the federal
government will put in order for another 200 million doses of the
approved vaccines to inoculate around 300 million Americans “by the
early fall” according to Biden.
Upon entering office, Biden committed that his administration will
administer 100 million vaccine doses of the COVID-19 shots within his
first 100 days in office.
Meanwhile, aside from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the list of the other 39
suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay who will be getting the
vaccine ahead of most Americans can be accessed here.
