Sir David Attenborough has called out anti-vaxxers, saying that they are ‘ignorant’ of the facts. He went on to add that the majority of people understand the coronavirus vaccines are a medical ‘triumph’. Sir David was asked how he would approach ‘anti-vaxxers’ and people who believe vaccines are not safe by Jon Snow during a Channel 4 News interview.
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The 94-year-old replied: “It is an ignorance of medical fact and if you don’t understand it, it’s very easy to mistrust it. “After all, you’re dealing with something precious – you are dealing with your own body, your own life, and you wish to protect that. Quite right too.
“And if you don’t understand what actually a vaccination does and to some degree, how it does it, then you say ‘keep off me’.”
“It is an ignorance of medical facts.”
Sir David Attenborough says “it’s easy to mistrust” the vaccine if people don’t understand how it works – but it is a “great triumph of medicine”. pic.twitter.com/RVf5OqYlkq
The legendary TV veteran also issued a warning, saying that we would face a ‘serious situation’ if anti-vaxxers managed to gain the ‘upper hand’ in regards to persuading the public. He added: “But it seems to me more and more people are understanding what this is and the majority of the population, I’m sure, understands perfectly well this is a great triumph of medicine.” In the UK more than 10 million people have now had a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government, with 9,646,715 of those being first doses and 496,796 second doses. Sir David revealed that he had been given his first dose last month.