Brazilian Minister of Health Nísia Trindade wants to punish “anti-vaccine doctors”.
According to her, the government is setting up a working team to analyze “misinformation” published on social networks by doctors and other people about immunization against Covid-19.
The group will analyze the type of alleged fake news and the degree of culpability of those who published it or passed it on.
Based on this material, it will assess whether punishment is appropriate and how it will be applied.
The Ministry of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Secretariat of Social Communication are also involved.
“Criminal conduct by doctors and other people will have to be punished, people who go to the networks to talk nonsense, that people will die if they take the vaccine or have some sequelae,” she said in an interview with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, published on Sunday 4.
“The so-called PL of fake news is already on the agenda, which is broader than that.”
According to Nísia, she participated in a meeting with the Federal Council of Medicine, which made itself available to help in a campaign in favor of vaccination.
“There are practices out of context, but also criminal practices,” the health minister noted.
With information from Revista Oeste
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