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Right Said Fred frontman Richard Fairbrass hospitalised with Covid-19 but is still refusing to get vaccine
Right Said Fred singer Richard Fairbrass was hospitalised with Covid after refusing to get the vaccination (Picture: Manfred Schmid/Redferns)
Right Said Fred frontman Richard Fairbrass still has no intention of getting the Covid-19 vaccine after falling ill with the virus.
The I’m Too Sexy singer, 67, became unwell last Saturday and was taken by ambulance to Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire.
The star needed oxygen as he struggled to breathe and spent four nights in hospital before he was sent home to recover.
His hospitalisation comes six months after he branded the vaccination a ‘scam’.
Scientific evidence shows that the Covid-19 vaccines reduce your risk of dying, or getting seriously ill from the virus. They also reduce the risk of catching and spreading it, and they protect against Covid-19 variants.
Richard told the MailOnline: ‘I’ve had a bit of Covid, it wasn’t too bad. I was a little breathless, I felt very tired.
‘But full credit to the NHS, they were non-judgemental and very open to how you wanted to be treated – and my treatment was just keeping my oxygen levels up for a week.’
Richard has achieved chart success over a number of decades with Right Said Fred (Picture: Manfred Schmid/Redferns)
However, Richard insists he will still not have the vaccine despite needing hospital treatment.
He claimed: ‘This vaccine is only for experimental use, it’s on trial until 2023, there is no long-term data on it – anyone who takes it is foolish.’
The performer added that if the data shows it is safe to take in 2023, he will have the injection then.
The Covid-19 vaccines approved for use in the UK have met strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness.
They have had to go through several stages of clinical trials before they can be approved for use and have been tested on thousands of people in the UK and around the world.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has an ‘estimated study completion date’ of May 2023.
Richard stars alongside his brother Fred Fairbrass in Right Said Fred (Picture: Getty Images Europe)
It is standard practice for the a vaccination to continue to be monitored after it has been approved.
Richard, who has attended anti-lockdown protests in London with his Right Said Fred bandmate brother Fred Fairbrass, previously branded the jab a ‘scam’.
He claimed to The Sun in February this year: ‘I believe the whole thing is a scam. I really do. I’ve been asked to have my vaccination, but I have refused.
‘I look at it in the same way that people were advised to keep smoking because it was good for the throat. Or, “Isn’t asbestos great – it’ll keep your farm clean.”
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‘I’m not against the vaccination. If you want to do it, that’s fine.’
He added that he was going to wait ‘a year or two’ to make sure the injection was ‘kosher’.
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