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The poll in question was conducted before coverage of a disagreement between Number 10 and Dominic Cummings, so this could not have affected the results, as suggested. Read
Health
Lateral flow tests have been used for a little while now. Here we talk about how accurate they are, and why so many different numbers on false positives are being discussed. Read
The march passed under Waterloo Bridge in 50 minutes. It’s unfeasible that one million people could pass through that space in 50 minutes. Read
Health
The BBC’s live blog confused Covid-19 with canine coronavirus Read
Health
The study it describes looked at whether Covid raises the risks associated with pregnancy—not whether pregnancy raises the risks of Covid. Read
An aerial image is claimed to be from the 24 April anti-lockdown march in London. It was actually from a 2018 march against Brexit. Read
The study was giving the Covid-19 vaccine to children aged between six and 17, not infants. Read
Claims that lockdowns and face masks don’t work are false. Read
Health
A report in the Telegraph claimed there was only one vaccinated case per 2,300 patients. That’s highly misleading. Read
The ‘peer-reviewed paper from Stanford’ is not from Stanford and may not have been conventionally peer-reviewed. Read
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