Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
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
This claim has been circulating since at least March 2020. Read
The photo appears to have originally been taken in South Carolina. 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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Posts on social media have overestimated the Covid recovery rate. Read
Evidence submitted to the human rights committee by four academics has been misunderstood. Read
Health
Claims that the Covid-19 virus has not been isolated, and therefore tests for it do not work, are unfounded. Read
The letter was sent without input from the council. A new letter issued to parents asks for consent to test children. Read
Sample pooling is a method being trialled to save time and resources when Covid-19 prevalence is low. Read
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