At the same time that the threat of the coronavirus itself reached pandemic levels, the spread of misinformation regarding the virus began to undermine public health efforts to combat its spread.
At least one study has tracked how various COVID-19 conspiracy theories have rose and fell over time, but many have had the dual effects of influencing people to take the virus less seriously and to distrust the vaccine protecting citizens from its potentially deadly effects.
Such a phenomenon has led Dr. Anthony Fauci to identify anti-vaccine attitudes as a major threat to the possibility of achieving herd immunity within the United States.
But while one video shows an extreme example of how coronavirus misinformation is doing similar damage within the United Kingdom, it's far from the only case identified there as a risk to health care workers and the public at large.