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The government needs a system for logging any medical problems that people encounter at the same time as the vaccine. Read
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Although there are fewer of these deaths than usual, the fall is neither unexpected, nor extreme Read
A post on social media claims without evidence that suicide deaths have been higher than coronavirus deaths in the last two months. Read
The post claims that the Covid-19 death rate is much lower than the estimated 0.5%-1% and makes baseless claims that a vaccine would kill more people than the virus. Read
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Vaccines don’t just prevent death. Read
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It was also claimed on talkRADIO that deaths from other respiratory diseases have simply been “replaced“ with Covid-19. Read
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Toby Young missed that a study he was citing had already calculated an IFR for Covid. Read
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GP practices are private companies that receive funding from a range of places. Read
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The company said decisions about entry requirements for events will be up to individual organisers Read
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The claim made by Independent SAGE is based on the £12 billion cost of the test and trace programme, which is mostly testing not tracing. Read
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