People did die of Covid-19 in Ireland in August
A viral post compares the number of deaths from cancer, suicide, alcohol and Covid-19 in Ireland, but it gets a lot wrong. Read
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Health
How does a Covid-19 test work?
The common cold will not produce a positive result on a Covid-19 diagnostic test. Read
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The government is not planning to roll out an untested Covid-19 vaccine
A government consultation about unlicensed vaccines has been misunderstood online. Read
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Almost all of these claims about viruses are wrong
Posts claiming that viruses are just dead material and the body contains many viruses don’t disprove the fact that Covid-19 can be very harmful. Read
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Pay for some nurses has fallen in real terms since 2010
Real-terms pay for staff at the top of band 5 fell from £33,007 in 2010/11 to £30,112 in real-terms between 2010/11 and 2019/20. Read
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Thérèse Coffey did not say starving people were not her concern
The fabricated quote appears to refer to an interview she gave to Sky News where she was asked about Mercy Baguma. Read
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This image of the Prime Minister has been altered
An expletive has been added in. Read
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Health
This post comparing deaths in August is a guess
We don’t yet have data on the number of deaths from suicide in August 2020. Read
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There’s no evidence for how many people took part in ‘Eat Out To Help Out’ or later died from Covid-19
A Facebook post makes misleading claims about the survival rates of people eating in restaurants without masks. Read
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