A post on Instagram has claimed that £37 billion was “wasted” on the NHS Test and Trace app when it actually cost about £35 million in its first year.Source
Police chiefs in England and Wales are legally required to “have regard” to the code of practice, but aren’t legally required to follow everything in it—or more detailed associated guidance.Source
Claims in a Facebook video that the tetanus vaccine was being used to sterilise people seem to be a rehashing of an old theory that has previously been disproven.Source
A social media post apparently shows part of an amoxicillin capsule being magnetic, and says this means it “most likely” has graphene oxide in it to poison us. This is not true.Source
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