“As is well known, I am excited about the working potential of graphene oxide and have inadvertently associated the substance with the vaccine, a fact that was contradicted in August 2021. Again, I regret what I said and apologize on,” the former president said on Twitter, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, after a chorus of criticism over Saturday’s intervention at a Liberal Party event in São Paulo state.
During the intervention, Bolsonaro said, according to the UOL Notícias portal, that the package insert for vaccines developed with mRNA technology contained a reference to graphene: “The vaccine has graphene dioxide, okay? What does it accumulate? In the testes and ovaries” , he said, exclaiming, “I’ve read the folder.”
Bolsonaro was president of Brazil between 2019 and 2022 and during the covid-19 pandemic he took a negative stance, devalued the seriousness of the virus, criticized the imposition of isolation measures, rejected the use of masks and spread unfounded suspicions about the effectiveness of vaccines .
The former head of state went so far as to associate anti-AIDS vaccines with AIDS in a live broadcast on his social networks, leading to the opening of an investigation at the Supreme Court of Justice into the spread of false news.
According to official data, Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, with 703,399 deaths and nearly 40 million cases so far.
Bolsonaro’s apology comes on the eve of a trial in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for abuse of political power by spreading false news about the election, which could eventually disqualify him from the election.
Source: DN
