Former England footballer and sport commentator Stan Collymore has sparked a new online controversy by casting doubt on a newly-announced COVID-19 vaccine.
Collymore, a former England international who played club football for Liverpool and Aston Villa, expressed his scepticism via Twitter on Monday over claims an an experimental vaccine developed by US firm Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech could be approved for use by next month. That was after promising trials on human subjects showed the vaccine was was safe although it failed to produce immunity in 10 per cent of recipients.
The "vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis", Pfizer said in a press release.
When accused by other Twitter users of being an 'anti-vaxxer', Collymore hit back, true to form.