Just as the UK prepares to launch mass COVID-19 inoculations to get the pandemic under control, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and vaccines, some experts have warned, have gone mainstream -- and no longer confined to the fringes.

"Around a quarter (of Britain's population) are entertaining such thoughts. Another quarter is consistently thinking in terms of conspiracy beliefs, and around one in 10 people seem to have a very high rate of endorsement of conspiracy beliefs."

At a recent protest in central London on Nov. 28, hundreds of people shouted slogans against COVID-19 lockdown measures and vaccinations. Followers of QAnon say a so-called Great Awakening is coming to bring salvation.

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