The Covid-19 vaccines saved many lives
A widespread meme on social media is clearly wrong when it suggests there is no evidence that the Covid vaccines saved any lives at all.
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NHS Covid tracing app did not cost £37bn
Multiple Facebook posts have claimed that £37 billion was spent on the NHS Test and Trace app when it actually cost about £35 million in 2020/21.
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Sadiq Khan did not have a ‘minor cardiac arrest’ at climate conference
The Mayor of London’s new book recounts a health scare in 2021 which may have been a heart attack. Some reports mistakenly called this a cardiac arrest, which is a different condition.
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Spain’s High Court didn’t call Covid-19 a ‘bioweapon’
A document released by the Health Ministry in 2021 said that it did not have its own culture of the virus. This was misinterpreted in a blog and on social media.
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Pfizer hasn’t been fined $2.3 billion for fraud relating to Covid vaccines
An out-of-context video has been liked more than 28,000 times on Instagram.
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UK’s worst week for Covid-19 deaths far worse than viral post claims
Several posts on Facebook claim that “the highest weekly Covid deaths in the UK was 652”. This is not true. The most people to die with Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificate in a single seven-day period in the UK
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The WHO has not declared the Covid-19 pandemic over
Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)—the highest possible level of alarm that mandates countries to act under international health regulations. The WHO said
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School statistics don’t show 140,000 children ‘never came back’ after pandemic disruption
We already have a reported 140,000 “ghost children”—youngsters who went missing during the pandemic home-schooling regime and never came back. Baroness Karren Brady, 29 April 2023. In a recent column for the Sun, the businesswoman and Conservative peer Karren Brady
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