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NHS England was wrong to claim its data showed 3.4 million children are ‘unprotected’ against measles
It seems the health service actually calculated that 3.4 million children might have missed at least one vaccine dose. Read
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It seems the health service actually calculated that 3.4 million children might have missed at least one vaccine dose. Read
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This was about the hourly rate of basic pay only, for first-year doctors only, last year. Read
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It may also contain harmful pathogens, so people with weaker immune systems are advised not to consume it. Read
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An old myth that the NHS Covid app cost £37 billion has resurfaced. In fact, that’s the budget for the first two years of the entire Test and Trace programme. Read
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About 60% of NHS consultants in England are BMA members, not the 40% that the committee’s post on X claimed. Read
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The Prime Minister may have meant to say in a Telegraph article that waits of 18 months have fallen, which they have. Read
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Between 10% and 20% of cases result in complications, even in the developed world. Read
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A famous case in the 2010s concerned whether proof had been provided in ‘a single publication’, not whether measles itself existed. Read
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Many Facebook posts have falsely described the vaccines as ‘DNA altering technology’. Read
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A claimed cut of 4,000 GPs in a Labour party briefing document seems to rely on a comparison between two different datasets, which the NHS itself says should not be compared. Read