Whistleblowers claim COVID-19 outbreak cover-up at migrant kids facility
NY Post
Federal officials at a facility housing migrant children at Fort Bliss made “every effort” to keep the extent of a COVID-19 outbreak under wraps, with one allegedly saying “politics will take over” if the word got out, volunteers claim.
The allegations about the Texas base were made in a whistleblower complaint filed Wednesday by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project on behalf of Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, who are described as “career federal civil servants” who volunteered at the Fort Bliss facility between April and June of this year. “COVID was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees,” reads the complaint, which was initially obtained by Fox News. “Hundreds of children contracted COVID in the overcrowded conditions. Adequate masks were not consistently provided to children, nor was their use consistently enforced.”More Related News