FL Supreme Court Empanels Jury On Vaccine Probe

Florida Politics reports:

Contending that its role in whether to empanel a statewide grand jury is largely “ministerial,” the Florida Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for a statewide investigation into whether vaccine manufacturers committed any wrongdoing in the development, marketing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose administration has been increasing its skepticism of the vaccines that have been taken by millions of Floridians, asked for the grand jury last week. DeSantis was a booster of COVID-19 vaccines when they were first developed.

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Gov. DeSantis asks, Supreme Court delivers: COVID vax grand jury empaneled

Reporting by @ChristineSextonhttps://t.co/BBR9rH3OwJ#FlaPol

— Florida Politics (@Fla_Pol) December 23, 2022

DeSantis’ anti-vax grand jury petition suggests that a rise in cardiac-related mortality in young people might be caused by vaccines. Of course, if you actually look at the study, you’ll see—shockingly—that the rise predates vaccination. Because it’s mostly due to COVID itself. pic.twitter.com/EKa8IGcNuM

— Benjamin Mazer (@BenMazer) December 18, 2022

DeSantis started his vax investigation to appeal to the MAGA base, which is largely anti-vax. He’s trying to handicap Trump, who can’t run on the one thing he can claim he got right – getting shots to Americans in record time.

Let the fighting begin? pic.twitter.com/wfTnyC4ri1

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 15, 2022

“COVID still kills about 450 Americans per day. Disproportionately, these deaths are among people who are not fully vaccinated. Ron DeSantis doesn’t give a crap about that. He doesn’t care if his stunt convinces people not to get vaccinated.”https://t.co/btl347yK48

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 15, 2022

DeSantis launches strike against lifesaving science,the 1st time any governor abused the power of the court system to write deliberate falsehoods against public health leaders into official court records where they could be wielded by other anti-vax forceshttps://t.co/fxTzLyzwfc

— Lesley Abravanel ? (@lesleyabravanel) December 18, 2022

“DeSantis could tell a compelling story about balancing individual liberty and public health…But he has decided to screw all that…DeSantis is sucking up to the anti-vax crowd and styling himself as a crusader against the ‘biomedical security state.'”https://t.co/0b4OMXf48I

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 15, 2022