Prashant Bhushan's Tweet On Vaccines Gets “Misleading” Flag On Twitter

Prashant Bhushan said he was sceptical about young and healthy people getting COVID-19 vaccines.New Delhi: A tweet by activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan about vaccines has been flagged as “misleading” by Twitter, prompting the 64-year-old to double down on his stance against what he called “indiscriminate” vaccination.Attaching a news article about a case where a 45-year-old woman died 10 days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, Mr Bhushan had tweeted this morning that it was “irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines especially to young and Covid recovered”.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.”It was this tweet that earned him censure by the social media platform, which slapped on a warning that its content was “misleading”, along with a slew of posts by other users criticising his view.Unfazed, Mr Bhushan posted a deeper dive summarising his “vaccine scepticism” and said he was “shocked by attempts to censor such contrarian views”.I have been attacked by many…
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