[Freddie Sayers from UnHerd talks with NHS doctor Steve James as to the reasons he’s willing to lose his job for refusing to take the Covid vaccine this April, when it becomes mandatory for NHS workers.
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Dr Steve James
I’d Sacrifice My Job Over
Vaccine Mandates
Jan 13, 2022
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Dr Steve James: I’d sacrifice my job over vaccine mandates
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Freddie Sayers meets NHS consultant Dr Steve James.
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-wi…
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Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/dr-steve-j…
Dr Steve James is a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital in London. When Health Secretary Sajid Javid visited last Friday, he asked the NHS staff about what they thought of the forthcoming mandates that will make Covid vaccination a condition of deployment for NHS staff. Dr James spoke out, saying why he was against the mandate and why he hadn’t taken the vaccine himself.
It made headlines across the UK media, in particular coming from a Cambridge-educated NHS frontline doctor. Dr James came in to the UnHerd studio to explain his position in more detail to Freddie Sayers.
// Timecodes //
00:00 – 01:40 – Introduction
01:40 – 05:36 – Is the unvaccinated doctor who confronted Sajid Javid an anti-vaxxer?
05:36 – 09:00 – Why did Dr Steve James decide not to take the covid vaccine?
09:00 – 10:03 – Is the doctor’s decision scientific?
10:03 – 16:26 – The vaccine mandate for NHS staff – good or bad?
16:26 – 19:25 – How has the reaction to Steve’s viral exchange been received by his colleagues?
19:25 – 20:27 – Will Steve ever get the jab?
20:27 – 22:14 – Does Steve worry his comments will be misused by ant-vaxx campaigners?
22:14 – 25:29 – Does Omicron render the vaccine pointless?
25:29 – 28:44 – Would taking the vaccine compromise Steve’s integrity as a doctor?
28:44 – 33:43 – What would Dr Steve James’s vaccine policy be?
33:43 – 36:05 – Does the government’s vaccine strategy make sense?
36:05 – 37:27 – Will the vaccine mandate happen? Will Steve lose his job?
37:27 – 37:47 – End
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[00:00]
Dr Steve James: The minority of people in the UK, adults who haven’t had the vaccine, please let’s give them some credit. They’ve thought about it.
Freddie Sayers: Hello! Happy New Year. And welcome to UnHerd. I’m Freddie Sayers. This week, we’re following up on something that happened in a London hospital a few days ago.
The Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, was visiting and asked the group of NHS staff who were gathered to meet him what they thought of the forthcoming vaccine mandate for NHS staff. It’s due to come in April. And it will mean that medical practitioners who are not vaccinated against Covid will not be able to work in the NHS, period.
