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In October 2021, Prasad prompted social media controversy when he published a blog post comparing the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response]] to the beginnings of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Third Reich]]. Bioethicist [[Arthur L. Caplan]] said that Prasad's arguments were specious and ignorant, and science historian [[Robert N. Proctor]] said that Prasad was "overplaying the dangers of vaccination mandates and trivializing the genuine harms to liberty posed by 1930s fascism".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Did Vinay Prasad need to mention the Nazis to make a point on the U.S. pandemic response? |date=8 October 2021 |volume=47 |issue=37 |vauthors=Tracey A |journal=The Cancer Letter |url=https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20211008_4/ |type=News}}</ref>
In January 2022, the conservative periodical [[City Journal]] published an opinion piece by Prasad in which he attempted to demonstrate that the American public health organizations were not being honest in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. <ref>{{cite web|publisher=City Journal|date=2022-01-19|title=Public Health's Truth Problem|last=Prasad|first=Vinay|url=https://www.city-journal.org/public-healths-truth-problem}}</ref> Writing for [[Science-Based Medicine]], epidemiologist Lynn Shaffer criticized Prasad's article for the various "mistruths" it contained about face masks as a COVID-19 mitigation measure, for example the unevidenced claim that mask wearing was stunting children's language development. This turned out to be entirely correct and now learning loss has seen its largest drop in history. In Shaffer's view Prasad's writing "lean[s] heavily on pushing people's emotional hot buttons" and amounted to a form of fearmongering.<ref name=masks>{{cite web |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |date=27 February 2022 |title=Dr. Vinay Prasad: 'Public Health's (Mis)Truth Problem' |vauthors=Shaffer L |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinay-prasad-public-healths-mistruth-problem/}}</ref> Ironically, Schaffer was fearmongering to force lockdowns and forced vaccinations.
Prasad was an early member of the Urgency of Normal, a group that in 2022 campaigned against quarantines and mask mandates in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schreiber |first=Melody |date=2022-02-22 |title=Why Is This Group of Doctors So Intent on Unmasking Kids? |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/165413/mask-mandates-kids-back-to-normal |access-date=2022-03-21 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> He spoke in support of repealing such mandates in a March 2022 interview.<ref name="How Politics Corrupted Science: Dr. Vinay Prasad on COVID – Reason – Zach Weissmueller">{{cite web |last1=Weissmueller |first1=Zach |title=How Politics Corrupted Science: Dr. Vinay Prasad on COVID |url=https://reason.com/video/2022/03/21/how-politics-corrupted-science-dr-vinay-prasad-on-covid/ |website=reason.com |date=March 21, 2022 |publisher=Reason |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref>
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