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The Full Fact Podcast episodes

March 19, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - March 19th
Clapham protester is not same woman injured in Parsons Green Tube attack, 17 countries haven’t ‘banned’ the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and Daily Mail (finally) issues correction. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one three minute blast.

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3 min
March 12, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - March 12th
Misleading claims about Serco’s role in Test and Trace resurface, side effects from the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines are about the same, and what happens when school pupils test positive for Covid-19? A week of independent, impartial fact checks from the UK's independent fact checking charity in a three minute blast.
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4 min
March 05, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - March 5th
The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex, HPV testing kits are not smear tests, and are 3 in 10 people really failing to self-isolate properly? A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast!
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4 min
February 26, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - February 26th
The National Audit Office did not claim there was never a national PPE shortage, we don’t know exactly how much Test and Trace affects the spread of Covid-19 and we can’t say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel - yet. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in one quick blast.
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4 min
February 19, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - February 19th
Evidence doesn’t show 400,000 people have long Covid ‘right now,’ study doesn’t say most vapers are 17% more likely to transmit Covid, and did EU exports really drop 68% in January? A week of our independent, impartial fact checks in a three minute(ish) blast.

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4 min
February 12, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - February 12th
Labour’s figures on the cladding crisis are far too high, people giving Covid-19 vaccines won’t be tried as war criminals, and the Covid-19 survival rate is not 99.991% for under 60s. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a short three minute blast.
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4 min
February 05, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - February 5th
Keir Starmer did want the UK to remain in the European Medicines Agency, warnings over NHS coronavirus vaccine scam email, and 53 people have not died in Gibraltar because of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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4 min
January 29, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - January 29th
Report of 8% vaccine efficacy for elderly debunked by German government, several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate and one in six may refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a quick three minute blast.
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4 min
January 22, 2021 Full Fact's Fact Blast - January 22nd
73,444 deaths registered in 2020 in England and Wales had Covid-19 as the underlying cause, we don’t know whether teachers are more likely than the general population to catch Covid, and what you need to know about claims that 23 people died after getting vaccinated in Norway. A week of independent, impartial fact checks in a three minute(ish) blast!

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4 min
January 18, 2021 PPE shortages in the first wave of the pandemic
What do we know - and not know - about the reported shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in UK hospitals during the first Covid-19 lockdown? Using freedom of information requests, Full Fact investigates.
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11 min

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We are the UK’s independent charity fighting bad information and bringing you weekly podcasts with our impartial fact checking team. We also release a three minute Fact Blast on Saturdays to keep you…