Prashant Bhushan’s Tweet On Vaccines Flagged As ‘Misleading’ By Twitter

In another tweet, Prashant Bhushan made it clear “for the record” that he doesn’t intend to get vaccinated.

Activist and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan’s recent tweet on vaccines has been flagged as ‘misleading’ by the microblogging platform on Monday. Bhushan’s remarks about the safety and efficacy of vaccines have invited widespread criticism.

A tweet by Prashant Bhushan on Monday morning said that it was “irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines especially to young and Covid recovered”. He also attached a news article of the case of a 45-year-old woman who died 10 days after taking the shot.

I have been attacked by many for tweeting about my views on Covid vaccines. The piece below summarises my Vaccine skepticism & the reasons for this. Apart from the vaccines being untested & having serious adverse effects, I am shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views pic.twitter.com/UktE7f7BPt

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) June 28, 2021

It was this tweet that earned him the ‘misleading’ tag, along with a slew of posts by other users criticizing his view and promoting vaccine hesitancy.

In a follow-up tweet, he wrote: “The healthy young have hardly any chance of serious effects or dying due to covid. They have a higher chance of dying due to vaccines. The COVID recovered have much better natural immunity than the vaccine gives them. Vaccines may even compromise their acquired natural immunity.”

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Unfazed, Mr. Bhushan posted a deeper dive summarising his “vaccine skepticism” and said he was “shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views”.

In another tweet, Prashant Bhushan made it clear “for the record” that he doesn’t intend to get vaccinated.