A Scottish NHS nurse who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories has been sacked from her job.
The Daily Record reported on nurse, Tracey McCallum, from Ayrshire, who was suspended by the NHS for branding the global health pandemic, “scamdemic” and peddling other falsehoods.
Now the 46 year-old woman has says that she has turned her back on her nursing career of more than 20 years to promote her extremist views.
Tracey told The Richie Allen Show, a radio broadcast that has previously featured Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites: “I don’t have any regrets. I’ve still got my moral compass intact.”
When the Record approached McCallum about her appearance on the show, she said: “You know this isn’t right what they’re doing and for you to be complicit – I would not speak to you about this.”
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McCallum’s job at Ayrshire’s Crosshouse Hospital was hanging in the balance after she claimed face masks help spread the virus and compared the vaccination programme with “genocide”.
She also backed an anti-malaria drug taken by ex-US president Donald Trump that was dismissed by world health chiefs.
McCallum was reported to NHS bosses after spouting her views in nursing Facebook groups.
She has now revealed she was “sacked” as a result of her views and had lost an appeal to be reinstated.
She still appears on the Nursing and Midwifery Council database as a registered nurse with no restrictions but has decided to quit nursing completely.
McCallum, who nursed in a spinal injuries unit and addiction services, is now working alongside a chiropractor. She said: “I’m ecstatic going to work.”
NHS24 said it was unable to comment.
