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These include claims that there is a blanket approach to DNACPRs on elderly and disabled people, that the Covid-19 vaccines are experimental and genocidal, and that the Covid-19 pandemic was planned. Read
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The paper used a picture of scenes from a gas leak in 2020, not Covid-19 in 2021. Read
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This term has been used a lot in reference to the so-called ‘Indian variant’ of Covid-19 which has multiple mutations, and so do many of the other variants. Read
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No UK regions reported zero “new daily cases” of Covid-19 on the day before. Read
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What changes is the balance of risk—meaning that for some people the risk of getting seriously ill with Covid eventually becomes even smaller than the risk from vaccination. Read
These include false claims that all animals in Covid vaccine trials died and that vaccines can change your DNA. Read
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A Telegraph article with a headline about teenage depression doubling due to social media did not get this information from the study it cites. Read
The Prime Minister originally said he would share ‘all the details’ with the House of Commons and ‘communications’ would be published. Read
A photo of Mike Tyson wearing a t-shirt promoting the ‘Plan-Demic’ conspiracy theory has been altered Read
The TV personality claimed photos showed how visibility of the Himalayas changed after lockdown. The ‘before’ image was edited and not real. Read
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