{"id":20567,"date":"2021-12-04T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20567"},"modified":"2021-12-04T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:46:44","slug":"bolsonaro-brazilian-supreme-court-opens-investigation-into-vaccine-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/12\/04\/bolsonaro-brazilian-supreme-court-opens-investigation-into-vaccine-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro: Brazilian Supreme Court opens investigation into vaccine comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has opened an inquiry into comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro wrongly claiming that Covid-19 vaccines may increase the chance of contracting Aids.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The comments, made during a social media livestream in October saw him temporarily banned from Facebook and YouTube under their fake news policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Bolsonaro has frequently cast doubt over the effectiveness of vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He is already facing a separate inquiry into his handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During the livestream on 24 October, Mr Bolsonaro claimed that reports “suggest that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) much faster than expected”. The assertion has been strongly rejected by scientists and medical experts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The embattled president, who has refused to get vaccinated himself, has defended the comments and claimed that he was simply quoting from an article in a magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled that Mr Bolsonaro had “used the modus operandi of mass dissemination schemes in social networks” which called for further investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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