Twitter Flags Trump Tweet Claiming ‘He’s Immune To Covid-19’ As ‘Potentially Harmful Information’

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Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Trump for violating its rules and “spreading misleading or potentially harmful information.”

Trump declared that he was now “immune” to the coronavirus and incapable of spreading it to others in a tweet on Sunday.

“A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can’t get it (immune), and can’t give it. Very nice to know!!!

RT reports: Twitter later flagged the tweet and added a disclaimer, but left it published because it “may be in the public’s interest” for it to remain accessible.

The president’s physician announced on Saturday that Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the virus to others. Critics have questioned when his last Covid-19 test was, though, since he was released from Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday.

The science behind being immune to the virus after recovering is not clear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported no person has gotten reinfected with the virus within three months of an initial recovery. This does not mean they cannot later be reinfected, however, and “additional research is ongoing.”

Some studies have suggested, though, that many who are infected with Covid-19 are likely to develop antibodies against the virus. 

In his Fox interview on Sunday, Trump did acknowledge that he does not know for how long he may be “immune” to Covid-19.

“It looks like I’m immune for, I don’t know, maybe a long time, maybe a short time,” he said. “It could be a lifetime. Nobody really knows, but I’m immune.”

4 Comments

  1. If you’re in a homo sapiens sapiens body, and you are alive, you have a functioning immune system. If it stopped working, you would die… VERY fast…

  2. Twitters just another facet if the totalitarian control over all communication set up by the post master general of the world who runs the show .The ringmaster of the circus that has its grand marquee in Piccadilly.

  3. Social media fact checkers have no expertise in the subjects they fact check. Maybe calling them fact checkers is the wrong word.

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