Japan has never enforced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate
An Instagram post claims that Japan has dropped Covid-19 vaccine mandates even though it has never enforced one. Read
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An Instagram post underestimates Covid-19 deaths among younger people
Just over 17,000 people under 65 died of the disease in England and Wales, up to the end of November 2021. Read
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The Nuremberg Code doesn’t state that mask mandates are a war crime
The Code, which was created in response to human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps, does not mention masks. Read
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The Covid-19 vaccines don’t have ‘negative efficacy’
Data from the UKHSA vaccine surveillance report cannot be used to estimate effectiveness correctly—as the report itself makes clear many times. Read
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A Covid-19 patient on BBC News is not a ‘crisis actor’
He was genuinely ill at the time of the interview, and later added the words “crisis actor” to his Instagram profile as a joke. Read
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Lemonade and Fanta don’t test positive for Covid-19
Testing lateral flows with random things produces an invalid result. Read
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The CDC has not ‘dropped’ all PCR tests
One type of PCR test has been ‘dropped’ in favour of others that are more efficient and can be processed more quickly. Read
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Doctor who challenged Sajid Javid made misleading claims about vaccines
A doctor who challenged Sajid Javid on live TV misleadingly suggested Covid-19 vaccines are less effective than the evidence suggests. Read
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UKHSA data reaffirms that vaccines work against Omicron
An online article has again misinterpreted data from the UKHSA to claim vaccines don’t prevent Covid-19 hospitalisation and death. Read
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Breastfeeding linked to reduced risk of heart disease
A study finding a link between breastfeeding and a reduced risk of heart disease could not confirm whether there was a causal link between the two. Read
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