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The viral post makes a number of claims about the symptoms of and ways to prevent Covid-19, but not all of them are right. Read
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Research estimates takeaways and restaurants are responsible for around 8% of the three million yearly norovirus cases in the UK. Read
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An ‘essential guide’ to avoiding the new coronavirus by the Daily Mail includes several pieces of advice not recommended by the government. Read
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No advice on handshaking has been issued by NHS England or Public Health England in response to Wuhan coronavirus. Read
Read separately, the quotes do not sound much like the new Wuhan coronavirus at all. Read
A Facebook post claims that Henry Kissinger gave a speech on eugenics and vaccines to the Council on Eugenics. Neither the speech nor the council is real. Read
Wearing a protective mask the wrong way around can reduce its effectiveness. Read
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Claims about patents existing for AIDS, Zika, SARS, swine flu and Ebola are misleading. Read
One is a sci-fi novel about a disease created in a lab outside of Wuhan, and another is a book of predictions that said a “pneumonia-like” illness would spread in 2020. Read
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There is no evidence that having 10 or more sexual partners directly increases the risk of cancer for either gender. Read
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