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How long should you wait between vaccines if you’re pregnant?
You should wait a week between your whooping cough or flu vaccine and the Covid vaccine. Read
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Covid-19 fact checks
This page brings together Full Fact’s fact checks on Covid-19, covering common claims, vaccine safety and efficacy, symptoms, treatments, government policies, and misinformation. We review evidence, correct errors, and monitor evolving science to help you make informed decisions.
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What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages
There’s no evidence that the vaccines are causing miscarriages. Read
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What do we know about Covid-19 vaccines and fertility?
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists say that there is no evidence to suggest that the Covid-19 vaccines affect fertility. Read
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How media reporting of modelling has shaped our understanding of the pandemic
Scientific modelling has been widely criticised throughout the pandemic. We spoke to some of the leading experts behind the numbers about how they felt their work had been reported . Read
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Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work
Claims that natural immunity is ‘complete’ and vaccines are ‘obsolete’ are completely false. Read
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No evidence of ‘nanobots’ in Covid-19 test swabs
The claim follows other misinformation that parasites and nanoparticles are in the swabs. Read
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Covid variants weren’t planned
A TikTok video falsely claims the variants of Covid-19 were “made up”. Read
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PCR tests are not ‘a fraud’
An interview with Kary B Mullis seems to have been taken out of context. PCR tests detect viral genetic material and are very accurate. Read
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Grant Shapps misspoke about double vaccinated people on BBC Breakfast
Rather than saying that double vaccinated people are much less likely to get and carry coronavirus, which is true, he mistakenly said that they were more likely. Read
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The Pfizer vaccine, teenagers and myocarditis
There were just under 400 reported cases of myocarditis, none of them fatal, after 8.9 million teens were vaccinated in the US. Read
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