GOOD Morning Britain has been the subject of more than a thousand Ofcom complaints after a debate about leaflets that Dr Hillary Jones called a Covid “hoax”.
The TV medic voiced his thoughts to ITV viewers as he warned against the brightly coloured flyers.
But his words on the show at the beginning of the month have lead a barrage of complaints.
The doctor held up the yellow leaflet and told hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley: “Just be aware of bogus letter drops which are complete nonsense.
“This is misinformation… It looks like a Government UK yellow card reporting scheme for adverse reactions to any sort of medicines or vaccines, but this purports to talk about all sorts of reactions to the vaccines which are bogus and hoax.”
Richard interrupted: “So it’s an anti-vaccine…”
“Yes, absolutely,” replied Dr Hilary. “And this would put a lot of people off the vaccine, dangerously, because it’s complete misinformation.”
Madeley took a closer look and said: “So if you get it…” before ripping up the leaflet and moulding it into a ball.
The panel then went on to laugh about Dr Hilary being given a pen which dispenses hand sanitiser.
One disgruntled viewer wrote on Twitter: “After Richard and Dr Hillary ripped up the yellow card on air then made jokes about a pen that dispensed sanitizer. Im Done.
“To deny, disregard and disrespect victims of vaccine injury is pure evil.
“No humanity, compassion or empathy. Just pure contempt. Complain to ofcom
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Another demanded: “@Ofcom this needs to be investigated.
“@GMB and Dr Hillary claiming the Yellow card reporting scheme, set up buy the government is “bogus”.
“If they are simply praporting the information on the leaflet to be bogus, this is also untrue. It states data from the Yellow card reports.”
COMPLAINTS
A third wrote: “Dr Hillary Jones was giving misleading information about the yellow card system it is on the government website”.
On the episode which aired on November 1, the television watchdog confirmed 1,428 complaints have been received in the past week, taking the total number to 1,540.
Ofcom told The Celeb Report: “Complaints related to a discussion on the Coronavirus yellow card reporting system.”
Good Morning Britain has been approached for comment.
