NHS workers member Dr Steve James went viral final week after he confronted Well being Secretary Sajid Javid over Covid vaccinations changing into obligatory for healthcare employees from April. 

Within the clip, Dr James said: ‘I’ve not had a vaccination; I don’t wish to have a vaccination.’ 

Nonetheless, he has since appeared on Good Morning Britain to insist he isn’t an anti-vaxxer regardless of his resolution to not get the jab. 

Talking to Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley on Wednesday, Dr James mentioned: ‘I’m not anti-vaxx as a result of I’ve seen an awesome, nice profit from the vaccines. There’s been an enormous discount within the variety of significantly unwell sufferers and vaccinations have virtually actually made the biggest contribution to that. 

‘The distinction between me giving my very own private cause as to why I wouldn’t have the vaccine, and why the vaccines usually are good. As a physician I’m not anti-surgery, it doesn’t imply that surgical procedure’s what I must have. For a inhabitants it could be good to supply sure remedies, it doesn’t imply that everybody must have these remedies.’ 

Dr Hilary Jones on Good Morning Britain
Dr Hilary was known as out the unvaccinated physician for refusing the Covid jab (Image: Rex Options)

When Richard requested him point-blank why he was refusing the vaccine, Dr James said: ‘Personally, I’m a match and nicely man, I’m not aged, I used to be uncovered to Covid on a number of events in hospital settings and I wasn’t getting sick. 

‘I assumed, nicely the vaccines are on the market now, they’ll go to the aged and susceptible, and I used to be stunned to see that there wasn’t some extent the place as a substitute of providing it to everybody, we’re now going to supply it in a nuanced manner.’ 

Nonetheless, Dr Hilary challenged the physician on his views and mentioned the ‘overwhelming majority of medical doctors and scientists assume the science is robust sufficient to assist vaccination and obligatory vaccination for NHS workers in touch with sufferers’. 

The TV medical professional continued: ‘By his personal admission he’s received antibodies, so in some unspecified time in the future he’s been in touch with coronavirus and has been able to transmitting coronavirus to the sickest sufferers in society in intensive and demanding care. 

‘Having not been vaccinated, he's prone to have the next viral load when he’s been infectious, and to hold that virus for longer. All of the science exhibits that transmission in an unvaccinated particular person is prone to keep it up for longer than it could in a vaccinated particular person.’ 

Dr Hilary added: ‘He talks concerning the threat to himself, there may be an moral responsibility for medical doctors below the GMC laws in communicable ailments to immunise your self to guard the danger to your sufferers and clearly that isn’t occurring right here.’ 

Richard chimed in and advised Dr James: ‘Dr Hilary has primarily simply mentioned your behaviour is, in case you like, egocentric, you’re placing sufferers in danger.’ 

Based on the Authorities, two doses of the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have been more practical than one dose at stopping symptomatic an infection. The booster vaccine supplied over 90% safety towards symptomatic an infection in adults aged 50 years and over.