Twitter Urged To Take Action Against Prashant Bhushan For Anti-Vaccine Post

Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan holds view that "promoting universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines is irresponsible".

Prashant Bhushan

New Delhi: Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan has once again stirred a controversy with his remarks against Covid-19 Vaccines being administered in the country. Taking to his official Twitter account, the activist-lawyer clarified that he is not "anti Vaccine per se" but holds view that "promoting universal vaccination of experimental and untested vaccines is irresponsible". 

Sharing a newspaper cutout featuring a news report of middle-aged woman succumbing to after-effects of vaccine, Prashant Bhushan in a Twitter post said, "The govt is not monitoring adverse events from vaccine nor releasing data." 

An hour later, Bhushan in another tweet said that while his friends & family have accused of promoting Vaccine hesitancy, "let me clarify my position. I am not anti Vaccine per se. But I believe it is irresponsible to promote universal vaccination of experimental&untested vaccines esp to young & Covid recovered." 

"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," Bhusan said in another tweet. 

“For the record, I have not taken, nor do I intend to take any COVID-19 Vaccine,” he added.

His remarks against vaccines have irked the Twitteratis with many demanding the social media platform to withdraw his tweet and take strict action Bhushan. Actor Siddharth strongly condemned Bhushan's remarks and asked twitter India to "mark it as misinformation."

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