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Long Covid is not really just Covid-19 vaccination side effects
Many sufferers are unvaccinated and evidence suggests vaccination reduces the risk. Read
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‘Wanted’ poster missing context on Test and Trace spending
£37 billion was the budget for Test and Trace, not the spend. Read
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Steve Barclay’s figure for new nurses’ pay includes extra earnings
The health secretary said that a new nurse will typically earn over £31,000 a year on current pay. This is an estimate that includes extra earnings such as overtime. Basic pay for a new nurse is aroun Read
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Covid-19 variants including Delta are real
The post claims that the Delta variant is fake. Read
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Liz Kendall’s claim that there were no NHS strikes under Labour ignores local walkouts
Staff at NHS hospitals did take part in local strikes when Labour was last in power. Read
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How much of the rise in ‘economic inactivity’ is due to long Covid?
A BBC news bulletin claimed a recent rise in the number of people who are neither working nor looking for work is “largely because of long Covid”. But there are reasons to believe much of the rise is Read
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Can you tell a drink has been spiked by its appearance?
A poster shares ways to tell if a drink has been tampered with. But spiked drinks do not necessarily exhibit any changes in appearance, taste or smell. Read
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Facebook post misinterprets BBC report on a ‘spike’ in neonatal deaths
The BBC article said that “two spikes” in the neonatal death rate had occurred in Scotland—not that spike proteins had been found in babies’ bodies. Read
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Labour MP wrongly claims £37bn spent on Test and Trace app
Karl Turner claimed that Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson “blew” £37 billion on the Track and Trace app. The app’s actual cost in the first year was about £35 million. Read
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British Heart Foundation comments on 30,000 excess deaths lack important context
Not all of the 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease in England since the pandemic started were necessarily caused by healthcare disruption. Many may have been caused by Covid-19. Read
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