Tue Jan 11, 2022 – 1:47 pm EST
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) — The U.K.’s health secretary Sajid Javid has come under fire for his proposed COVID jab mandate for health staff, after a practicing consultant questioned Javid over the logic of the policy, calling instead for acknowledgement of the benefit of natural immunity.
National Health Service (NHS) consultant anaesthetist Dr. Steve James, based in London’s Kings College Hospital, challenged the health secretary Friday, in an encounter which has since gone viral.
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During his hospital walkabout, accompanied by a large media presence, Javid asked NHS staff what they thought about his rules requiring NHS staff to be injected for COVID-19 or lose their jobs. Under recently approved laws, NHS and social care staff must be injected with the COVID shots in order to continue working, with the first dose by 3 February. Staff who worked in health settings since the start of the COVID-era, and who do not submit to the mandate, will be jobless come April 1, 2022.
After an initial uneasy silence from the five staff questioned, James responded to Javid.
“I’m not happy about that. I had COVID at some point, I’ve got
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