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A Telegraph article reported comments made during the Covid Inquiry, which inaccurately described the content of Age UK’s witness statement. Read
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Last week Sir Keir Starmer claimed that Labour achieved the shortest waiting lists “in history”, while Wes Streeting said it had delivered the shortest waiting times. Read
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Claims last month that one in three women working in surgery have been sexually assaulted by a colleague come from a voluntary survey that was shared by email and on social media. Read
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An uncertain statistical finding in a single study is heavily outweighed by a large body of evidence showing that the Covid vaccines reduce your chance of severe Covid. Read
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Apparently contradictory research from Labour and the Times suggests that either 121,000 or 340,000 people died while waiting for treatment in England last year. Read
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A poll by Blood Pressure UK suggests that most 30-50s don’t know their blood pressure—but other evidence suggests that it won’t be high in most cases. Read
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FOI information obtained by Labour contained errors, which made it appear that a patient had waited continuously in A&E when in fact they left the hospital and returned the following month. Read
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Videos from a popular Instagram influencer wrongly suggest that the 5G network is somehow causing disease associated with the new Covid variant. Read
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A video from the US is circulating on social media again, claiming that mortality data in the UK shows Covid-19 vaccines to cause a large increase in deaths. This is not what the data shows. Read
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Articles in the Sun said that about a third of 11,000 malnutrition cases in England involved children. The actual share is about 3%. Read
