Covid deaths UK

By reinstating banned accounts and selling blue checks, Musk has supercharged “the most dangerous” Covid disinformation.

While some vaccines have been found to cause inflammation of the heart, [experts say](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/coronavirus-vaccine-your-questions-answered/myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-should-you-be-worried) cases are rare and usually short-lived, and Covid itself is more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccine. [tsunami of conspiratorial claims](https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/damar-hamlin-heart-attack-vaccine-misinformation-fox-news-tucker-carlson/) attributing his illness to Covid-vaccine-induced myocarditis. In January 2023, anti-vaxxers claimed without basis that the death of musician Lisa-Marie Presley, from a suspected heart attack, was due to her having taken the vaccine. Illnesses that have been baselessly blamed on the vaccine include a suspected heart attack—in fact, a panic attack— suffered by musician Rod Stewart’s 11-year-old son, and an eye condition that hospitalized singer Tom Fletcher, from the pop group McFly. Gough’s accounts, and the Twitter feed of GenX Radio in Suffolk, UK, where he and Hazell worked, were “besieged with abuse,” Hazell says. [reportedly from a suspected heart attack](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-63377458), and turned his Twitter and Instagram feeds into a storm of disinformation and abuse.