The Anna Delvey Plot Twist You Didn’t See Coming
The rekindling of public fascination with fake German heiress Anna Delvey ignited by a soapy Netflix miniseries could end up bringing attention to the plight of other people who, like her, are currently held in detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Delvey (née Sorokin) is one of four plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of medically vulnerable people held in ICE detention who requested and were denied access to COVID-19 vaccine booster shots—a vulnerability that medical experts on disease transmission and public health say is particularly acute in carceral environments.
“Any setting where people don’t have a choice to leave, such as prisons, jails and immigration detention, are considered congregate settings, and in a congregate setting the risk of transmission is much greater because of the proximity of individuals to one another,” said Dr. Ranit Mishori, the senior medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights and a professor of family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine who also serves as the university’s chief public health officer.