Economy, Business & Finance
Poverty is not the same as food insecurity
Claims about all households in poverty struggling to put food on the table need a closer look. Read
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Pippa Allen-Kinross
News & Online Editor (former)
Pippa joined Full Fact as a journalist in January 2020 from her position as senior reporter at Schools Week. She previously worked for the Wimbledon Guardian and The Wharf and freelanced at Mirror Online.
Lateral flow tests are not unsafe
Posts on social media are wrong to warn that the ethylene oxide used to sterilise some Covid-19 tests makes them dangerous. Read
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Police confirm officers did not suffer broken bones at Bristol protest
Avon and Somerset police initially said one officer had a broken arm and another had broken ribs. Read
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Oranges don’t test positive for Covid-19
A post on Facebook claims an orange tested positive for coronavirus using a lateral flow test. Read
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AstraZeneca does not translate to ‘weapon that kills’
The Covid-19 vaccine developer got its name from a merger of two companies. Read
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Clapham protester is not same woman injured in Parsons Green Tube attack
Social media posts falsely claim that a woman arrested during the Clapham vigil is the same woman who was injured in the Parsons Green Tube attack. Read
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Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 460 deaths
Misleading claims about vaccine deaths are a misreporting of data from the Yellow Card scheme. Read
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Test and Trace has much larger budget than Mars Perseverance expedition
We don’t yet have figures for the entire amount spent on Test and Trace, but it is already more than NASA has spent on its latest Mars mission. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is Transport for the North’s budget being reduced by 40%?
Boris Johnson denied 40% reductions to the transport body’s budget during PMQs. Read
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Health
Are 3 in 10 people failing to isolate?
Keir Starmer’s claim about self-isolation comes with many caveats. Read
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