Good Morning Britain has been hit with 73 complaints relating to information about Covid vaccines.
It comes after the show’s Dr Hilary Jones slammed an ICU doctor on the show earlier this month after he refused to have the Covid vaccine.
He hit out at Dr Steve James, a consultant anaesthetist working in London, after he challenged health secretary Sajid Javid over the Government’s decision to make vaccines mandatory for NHS staff as he toured King’s College Hospital in London.
Dr James said “the science isn’t strong enough” to support the government’s decision.
He later appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on January 12 where he defended his comments.
However, the TV doctor dismissed his claims – insisting the science is strong enough and if he was vaccinated and did catch Covid.
Dr Hilary said: “The basic point that I’d like to make is the vast majority of doctors and scientists think the science is plenty strong enough to support vaccination and mandatory vaccination for NHS staff in contact with patients.
“By his own admission, he’s got antibodies so at some point, he’s been in contact with coronavirus and has been capable of transmitting coronavirus to the sickest patients in society in intensive and critical care.”
He said he wouldn’t have such a high viral load when infectious and would carry the virus for a shorter amount of time.
He said it was Dr James’ “ethical duty” to immunise himself, adding: “Having not been vaccinated, he is likely to have a higher viral load when he’s been infectious and to carry that virus for longer and all the science shows that transmission in an unvaccinated person is likely to carry on for longer than it would in a vaccinated person.
“He talks about the risk to himself, there is an ethical duty for doctors under the GMC regulations in communicable diseases to immunise yourself to protect the risk to your patients and clearly that isn’t happening here.
Dr James claimed he was part of 10 per cent of NHS staff who haven’t had the vaccine.
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He said: “10 per cent of NHS staff are essentially in the same position as me. I’m not a fringe person, I’m having an expression of my voice, a voice which hasn’t been heard.
“Hundreds of doctors and nurses have contacted me saying thank you, let’s open this debate up. The debate hasn’t been held.”
TV watchdog Ofcom also confirmed today it received more than 200 complaints from angry ITV viewers due to the ongoing Meena Jutlia storyline
In the episode, evil Meena put her plan in place to murder her sister Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker) and Vinny Dingle (Bradley Johnson)
Dr James was also quizzed by hosts Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid over his anti vaccine stance.
The Dr explained to Madeley: “I am not anti-vaxx as I have seen a great benefit from the vaccine.
“There’s been a huge reduction in the number of seriously ill patients that have come into hospital.
“And vaccination has certainly been the largest contribution to that.”
ITV have been contacted by Daily Star Online for comment.
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