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By: EFE Updated 01 Jun 2022, 01 : 59 am EDT
The United States Department of Justice appealed this Tuesday the sentence handed down last April by a Florida federal judge that invalidated the use of masks on board planes and other means of public transport, local media reported.
In its request to reverse the sentence, the Department argues that the decision made in January of 2021 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and that requiring transport users to wear masks was within their prerogative.
Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle
, nominated by former President Donald Trump for the district court in Tampa (Florida), considered the past 18 April that the CDC order exceeded “the legal authority” of this national sa agency public health of the United States.
In the appeal, collected in part by CNN, the agency assures “that it is difficult to imagine a more direct means of controlling the spread of a contagious disease than a measure that traps infectious particles to prevent their spread.”
Despite its annulment, the CDC has continued to recommend the use of the mask on public transport, although as the president of the United States assured, Joe Biden, one day after Mizelle’s sentence was known, since then it is only a decision of travelers whether or not to cover their mouth and nose on trips.
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