The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered an investigation on President Jair Bolsonaro’s false claims that receiving the COVID-19 vaccine increases the chance of contracting AIDS.
On Twitter, the Supreme Court said that Justice Alexandre de Moraes had begun an investigation into Bolsonaro’s comments made during a live video broadcast on numerous social media platforms in October.
Bolsonaro was temporarily suspended from Facebook and YouTube after appearing in a video in which he claimed that reports about him were false. “suggest that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome much faster than expected.”
Scientists and medical experts were quick to dismiss the notion.
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The inquiry was established, according to the Supreme Court, in response to a request from a parliamentary commission looking into the Bolsonaro administration’s reaction to the outbreak.
According to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS. COVID-19 vaccines approved by health regulators are safe for people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS,
After the United States, Brazil had the second-highest mortality toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. Bolsonaro is the only president of a G20 country who claims to be the world’s most powerful man.
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