Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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FactCheck: government doesn’t know how many staff at hundreds of care providers are vaccinated
Some 668 providers are missing from the data.
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FactCheck: did Hancock break law over embrace?
The health secretary said he had “let people down” and is “very sorry”.
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Hospitals told to brace for double wave of Covid and child infections
At the same time the third wave of severe Covid cases is likely to peak in hospitals, in early August, NHS leaders are also predicting a national wave of Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV infections.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims about care home lists don’t add up
The Health Secretary said the government didn’t have a list of all the elderly care homes in England.
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FactCheck: how many care home outbreaks were caused by hospital patients?
Matt Hancock said the “best estimate” was 1.6% – but there’s key data missing.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims 12-week gap between vaccine doses ‘saved 12,000 lives’
The data doesn’t tell us about this specific policy.
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Pfizer Covid jab 100% effective for children aged 12-15, new study suggests
A new study from the United States has suggested that the Pfizer Covid jab is “100% effective and well tolerated” in children aged 12 to 15.
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FactCheck: does the UK have enough Covid vaccine?
The latest government figures cast doubt on whether AstraZeneca is hitting its target to supply 2 million doses of vaccine a week. The number of Pfizer doses administered has also shrunk.
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FactCheck: What is happening with Britain’s vaccine supply?
AstraZeneca has committed to delivering 2 million doses of vaccine a week, but it’s not easy to check whether this benchmark is being hit.
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FactCheck: minister claims UK has ‘highest vaccine acceptance’ in world
We don’t know yet.
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FactCheck: Test and Trace chief claims variant couldn’t have been predicted
There was evidence of mutations in spring 2020.
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FactCheck: government emails cast doubt on safety of school testing plan
Pupils and staff in England can avoid self-isolating after contact with a covid case if they take seven daily tests.
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‘I feel I’m in a war zone – it’s not getting better’: Inside UK intensive care
Hospitals across the country are facing a desperate struggle to cope.
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‘I would expect there to be the need for a lockdown after Christmas’ – epidemiologist Prof Liam Smeeth
We were joined by Prof Liam Smeeth and Prof David Salisbury,
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FactCheck: how reliable are the UK’s coronavirus lateral flow tests?
SAGE papers suggest around half of positive cases are missed when the tests are done by non-experts.