Dr Ranj tells anti-vaxxers to ‘get a grip’ after hospital visit
TV presenter Dr Ranj Singh has shut down online anti-vaxxers attempting to falsely diagnose a recent health issue.
Posting a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant was keen to address a visit to hospital that seemed to attract conspiracy theorists.
“FYI… for the anti-vax plonkers on here. Honestly, give your heads a wobble,” he wrote to his 347,000 followers.
“A little health update… unfortunately I had dehydration after a bout of food poisoning. Luckily I got great care from our NHS and was discharged home after some fluids to recover! [blue heart emoji].
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“Unfortunately there are some absolute plonkers on social media (Twitter) who think my recent hospital stay was something to do with vaccines. It wasn’t. Honestly, get a grip! [facepalm emoji].”
Dr Ranj has previously been outspoken in support of vaccines.
In September last year, he urged all older people to get their COVID booster and flu vaccinations “as soon as they can” ahead of an expected surge in illnesses.
In January 2021, while Britain was still gripped by the pandemic, Dr Ranj – along with Dr Zoe Williams and Dr Nighat Arif – urged ethnic minority communities to get the vaccine after a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) report found that more than 70% of black people, and over 40% of Pakistanis or Bangladeshis were unlikely to do so.
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Arif said on This Morning: “It’s really important at this point that I make [it] absolutely clear that all faith groups have said that the vaccine is safe and all imans and leaders from their communities have come out to encourage their community.”
Williams went on to say: “Even right now today, in the NHS, there is institutional racism. This SAGE report, for the first time really, has acknowledged that and I think for the black community to take the vaccine, which I really want them to do, they really should do because the vaccine is safe.”
Dr Ranj was previously resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning. However, following allegations of a cover-up on the show over Phillip Schofield’s affair with a young male colleague,
Dr Ranj hit out at the daytime show’s “toxic” culture, saying he raised concerns about “bullying and discrimination” two years ago when he worked there and afterwards felt like he was “managed out” for whistleblowing.
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