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On 2nd February, The Daily Mirror newspaper said “Families to be left £2,000 a year worse off as cost of living continues to soar”

To get to its £2,035 a year total, The Mirror added together the various price increases and tax changes with the estimated fall in ‘real wages’. But the measure of ‘real wages’ already takes price rises into account.

Double counting

Posts all over social media falsely claim police in West Yorkshire are investigating the vaccine roll-out. They cite a “crime reference number” as evidence for this.

Reference numbers are used to make a record of complaints. West Yorkshire Police told us: “No crimes have been recorded however and no criminal enquiries are ongoing by West Yorkshire Police in respect of the vaccination programme.”

Non-crime reference numbers

A video shared by NHS England contained claims about children and Covid that were not accurate. Dr Binita Kane said: “One in a hundred children will actually get sick enough [with Covid] to be admitted to hospital"

The video was widely shared before being deleted, but NHS England has not yet published a correction. Based on what we know, her claims on the number of deaths and the risk of hospitalisation were almost certainly overstated.

The risk of hospitalisation for children

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ASA upholds Full Fact complaint about misleading vaccine advert

The Advertising Standards Authority rules an advert containing misleading vaccine information breaches their rules.

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