1. Kay Allison "Kate" Shemirani was born on 1965 and is a British conspiracy theorist, anti-vaccine activist and former nurse who lost her licence to practise in 2020 for misconduct.
25 Facts About Kate Shemirani
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Kate Shemirani is best known for promoting conspiracy theories about COVID-19, vaccinations and 5G technology.
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Kate Shemirani describes herself as a "Natural Nurse in a Toxic World".
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Kate Shemirani was suspended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in July 2020, in response to complaints that she was spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and about vaccines, and struck off in May 2021.
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Kate Shemirani is known for her promotion of conspiracy theories on topics related to vaccines and 5G telephone networks, in particular in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kate Shemirani has presented her views at events alongside other conspiracy theorists such as David Icke, Piers Corbyn and Mark Steele.
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Kate Shemirani has been suspended from Facebook several times for promoting harmful misinformation to her 54,000 followers, including linking the 5G mobile network to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kate Shemirani was suspended from Twitter in late October 2020.
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Kate Shemirani has been the subject of complaints for likening measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic to Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust.
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Kate Shemirani has referred to hospital deaths as "genocide" and the National Health Service as "the new Auschwitz".
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The Jewish Chronicle investigated Kate Shemirani and found that online she made references to Hitler and the Nazis when describing the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and the NHS.
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Kate Shemirani was a host and speaker at Resist and Act for Freedom, a protest event held at Trafalgar Square on 19 September 2020.
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On 8 December 2020, Kate Shemirani appeared on Sky News and gave an interview with Alex Rossi and made several unsubstantiated claims.
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Kate Shemirani said, "No vaccine has ever been proven safe and no vaccine has ever been proven effective".
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On 24 July 2021, Kate Shemirani attended a protest at Trafalgar Square, London, and made threats to NHS doctors and nurses by comparing them to the doctors and nurses of Nazi Germany who were convicted at the Nuremberg Trials and hanged.
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On 30 August 2021, an anti-vaccine protest led by Kate Shemirani was followed by the temporary closure of a vaccination facility in Churchill Square, Brighton after a smoke-bomb was set-off in the nearby shopping centre.
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Kate Shemirani contends that Jewish financier George Soros is responsible for the Black Lives Matter protests.
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Kate Shemirani contends Soros and Bill Gates are promoting an untrue COVID-19 pandemic for their own advantage.
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Kate Shemirani had repeated QAnon conspiracy theories about figures in the US Democratic Party.
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Kate Shemirani has stated her belief in Satanic cults, which she linked to conspiracy theories concerning COVID-19.
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Kate Shemirani referred to nurses who carry out vaccinations as Nazis and to those who recognise the gravity of the pandemic as "complicit in the tyranny and lies".
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Kate Shemirani separated from her husband Faramarz Shemirani in 2014.
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Kate Shemirani was contacted by the BBC about her son's account.
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Kate Shemirani argued that his mother is "beyond help" and that "the problem is that she's so arrogant in her world view and really, truly believes that she is a conduit for the truth on a spiritual level, not just a scientific level".
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Kate Shemirani told British radio presenter Maajid Nawaz during an interview on LBC that after he told his mother that he was getting a Covid vaccine, she sent him text messages telling him that his "DNA is going to be changed" and "that the enzyme is created by the devil himself".