Word: The cost of not giving flu shots to migrants

NPR -This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it would not give flu shots to the thousands of migrants now in its detention centers.

Dr. Bruce Y. Lee of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health called the department's edict, "short-term thinking."

"Holding a number of unvaccinated people in a crowded space could be like maintaining an amusement park for flu viruses," he wrote for Forbes. He explains that viruses could spread through the congested, often cold, and unsanitary detention camps, and get passed between those people who've been detained — weak, tired and dusty — as well as those who work there.

Viruses spread. They cannot be "detained," like people.