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Creator Awards. 100,000 subscribers. 1,000,000 subscribers. Last updated: 14 February 2024. John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator known for his videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later diverged into COVID-19 misinformation.
July 1958 (age 65) Alma mater. St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Occupations. Professor of genetic epidemiology. science writer. co-founder of Zoe Ltd [1] Timothy David Spector OBE FMedSci (born 1958) is a British epidemiologist, medical doctor, and science writer.
Roughly 1.3 million UK people have "long Covid", symptoms lasting over four weeks following initial infection, according to an Office for National Statistics survey. The ONS survey, during four weeks in November and December 2021, claims, of those with long Covid: "51% have fatigue. 37% have loss of smell.
A search of Google News for Dr. John Campbell and Covid deaths pulls up a story from Politifact, published several days prior to the BBC article, that mentions the Campbell video without making this misleading assertion. No, death totals from COVID-19 in England have not been overstated.
People at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Los Angeles on Aug. 5, 2022. (Xinhua via Getty Images) (Xinhua News Agency via Getty Ima)
WHO announces that "Of 899,935 Covid-19 test samples sequenced and uploaded to the global Covid database in the last 60 days, 897,886 (99.8%) were confirmed to be Delta, while 713 (0.1%) were Omicron." Cases in South Africa rise by 110% in one week. Cuba reports its first case, in a person who had traveled from Mozambique. 10 December
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Misinformation on the subject of COVID-19 has been used by politicians, interest groups, and state actors in many countries for political purposes: to avoid responsibility, scapegoat other countries, and avoid criticism of their earlier decisions. Sometimes there is a financial motive as well.