direct to your inboxNews that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for use in the UK should be met with universal joy.After months of misery, scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough that will eventually enable life to return to normal.
The government is preparing the NHS to rollout the vaccine as soon as next week and it will be an enormous logistical task, especially as the Pfizer vaccine must be kept at temperatures of minus 70 degrees.But the British public is also facing another serious challenge - misinformation.Within hours of the approval news breaking today, both "Thalidomide" and "Bill Gates" began trending on Twitter.Both relate to widely-circulated but false claims from opponents of vaccination, which.