NHS England Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens has criticised those that claim COVID-19 is a hoax.
Sir Simon said:
‘If you sneak into a hospital in an empty corridor at nine o’clock at night and film that particular corridor, and then stick it up on social media and say ”this proves the hospitals are empty, the whole thing is a hoax”, you are not only responsible for potentially changing behaviour that will kill people, but it is an insult to the nurse coming home from 12 hours in critical care having worked her guts out under the most demanding and trying of circumstances.’
He added: ‘There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue.’
It comes as Boris Johnson announced that the army would support the mass rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine across the United Kingdom over the coming months, with the aim of vaccinating nearly 14 million people by the middle of February.
Mr Johnson also promised that every care home resident would be offered a vaccination by the end of January.
