Brazil has the third-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, behind just the United States and India. Last year, Brazil’s anti-gay president, Jair Bolsonaro, suggested that people would turn into alligators if they received a COVID-19 shot.īolsonaro had previously claimed that wearing a mask to prevent spreading coronavirus is “for fairies” before personally contracting the disease in July.
While the vast majority of Israeli leaders have come out in support of vaccinations as the country sets its sights on inoculating over half its citizens by mid-March, Asor isn’t the only notable figure to have spread such absurd claims about the vaccine.
