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Health
Spend on contact tracing is a small part of Test and Trace. As of October, roughly the same amount had been spent on national and local authority tracing efforts. Read
Health
Sir Keir Starmer and other Labour MPs claim that people are breaking the rules because they cannot afford to follow them, but this is not what the evidence says Read
A higher ratio of false positives to true positives are expected when viral prevalence in the community drops. Read
Health
Posts claim that CNN used a picture of one of the first vaccine recipients back in October. They did not. Read
Health
Claims about PEG, non-neutralizing antibodies, fertility and late effects have been made about the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the UK. Read
Education
The Conservative Party has made incorrect claims about education spending on social media. Read
Health
The vaccine causes an immune response to a spike protein, but this almost certainly won’t make the body attack the placenta. Read
Health
It is a vaccine record card with appointment details, but no secure identifying information Read
Health
The MHRA could have given the Pfizer vaccine the same emergency approval when the UK was in the EU. Read
Health
Allison Pearson claimed Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance cherry-picked rising hospital bed occupancy figures in the coronavirus briefing last week. They didn’t. Read
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