She gave an interview for The Daily Show in 2014, claiming vaccines are “full of toxins.” The segment’s title is “Free Cell Outbreak” and compares the progressive anti-vaccination movement to climate change denial conservatives.
“You can line up doctors from here to turn me down, but I’m not going to change my mind,” Ms. Pope said.
As Ms. Manookian often notes in her biographical information, she had a career working on Wall Street in the 1990s and early 2000s. But then, when she was 28, according to her website, she received a “ton of travel vaccines,” which resulted in “a lot of health problems.”
The judge is right
On July 12, 2021, when Ms. Pope and Ms. Daza filed their lawsuit, the Tampa department randomly assigned its newest judge, Judge Mizelle, a conservative jurist appointed by President Donald J. Trump appointed in November 2020. That’s a boon for the plaintiffs.
“They got lucky with a judge who sympathized with their ideology,” said Lawrence O. Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University.
Once their team got the winning ticket, they fought to keep it. On October 15, attorneys representing the CDC and the White House pushed to refer the case to another judge in the same county, Paul G. Byron, to “avoid the possibility of inefficiencies.” Judge Byron, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014, handled a similar case against the CDC involving a man who said his anxiety prevented him from wearing a mask. , prevent him from flying. The plaintiffs argued that the cases were quite different and Judge Mizelle rejected the transfer offer.
On April 18, year the date on which the mask task was scheduled to expire – five days earlier, CDC extended two weeks – Judge Mizelle gave his verdict. Her focus is in part on the Public Health Services Act, law was established in 1944 to give federal officials the power to make and enforce regulations to prevent the introduction of a contagious disease from abroad and its spread between states. Such regulations may include “inspection, disinfection, sterilization, sanitation, extermination of pests, destruction of animals”, the law states, “and other measures” assessed by the authorities. is “possibly necessary”.
