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The paper, which was retracted days after it was published, did not prove any link between 5G and coronaviruses. Read
Six members of the Ukrainian military have died of Covid-19 so far, but that wasn’t anything to do with a vaccine. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
MP Zarah Sultana claimed that the super-rich and large corporations dodge £90 billion in tax every year. This is based on an estimate for the tax gap which is much higher than the official figure. Read
Health
Matt Hancock misspoke saying that 79.7% of close contacts of infected people are being reached by test and trace. Read
Health
Figures from the Office for National Statistics are being widely misunderstood. Flu isn’t the underlying cause of death for more people than Covid-19 at the moment, but pneumonia probably is. Read
Health
A study into the quantity of Covid-19 carried by some children does not prove they are ‘silent super-spreaders’. Read
The company changed suppliers but it will continue to get some of its wheat from the UK and some from Canada. Read
A post on Facebook incorrectly claims that allowing women born in the 1950s to retire at age 60 would create four million jobs for young people. Read
Health
These thermometers do not emit infrared radiation, they measure it. Read
The app hasn’t been binned, although the government did change direction with their original app to instead use the Google/Apple system. Read
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