Updated: 17 Dec 2020, 17:12
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AN MP has blasted Tik Tok for not removing a beautiful but wicked anti-vaxxer who claims the Covid-19 jab is made of aborted foetuses .
SNP politician John Nicolson has blasted the social media platform for allowing dangerous anti-vaxxer fanatics to spread lies about the life-saving vaccine.
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Theo Bertram, public policy director at Tik Tok, claimed anti-vaxx content was removed from the platform
Mr Nicolson grilled Theo Bertram, public policy director at Tik Tok, at the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select committee today.
He stormed: We re in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, 1.7 million people have died, of that, 66,000 in the UK alone.
COVID daily cases jump 50% in a week to 18,450 as ministers threaten to CANCEL Christmas: Pressure on Boris to scrap five-day break from restrictions as Government crisis talks with other UK leaders fail to reach agreement
Restrictions are supposed to be eased to allow up to 3 households to meet for 5 days over the festive period
But scientists fear this could fuel new Covid variant that may be behind a surge of cases in southern England
Urgent talks are under way in Whitehall on whether to tighten regulations in response to rising cases
Leading medical journals have published rare joint editorial calling for the relaxation to be abandoned
In fact, the reality is much more prosaic. The simple fact is that all viruses mutate.
It is a normal occurrence, happening all the time, and is not something to be particularly alarmed about.
The phrase ‘new variant of coronavirus associated with faster spread’, uttered in sombre tones by Matt Hancock (pictured)
Infection rate data for December 8 shows that the worst affected areas of England are now mostly confined to the East, South East and London
The flu virus does so more readily than Covid, which is why scientists develop a new vaccine against it every year.
There is nothing in itself alarming about a virus mutating: in the vast majority of cases, this makes little difference to how much disease it causes or how fast it spreads.