Sunday 17 January, 2021
Studies have shown that masks can help prevent the spread of the virus.
False claims on social media have inaccurately attributed a quote to the World Health Organization.
The post incorrectly compares CSO data for ten months in 2020 with previous years.
This week, Health Mininister Stephen Donnelly denied the government had gone against public health advice.
The video was posted online before Christmas and now has more than 1 million views.
A false claim on social media suggests that a Pfizer document said vaccine recipients should not have unprotected sex for 28 days after receiving their second dose.
A poster that falsely claims to have been published by the HSE is being shared on social media.
An image being shared on social media is actually of an Everton football fan attacked in 2019.
A claim on social media says that George Nkencho had 32 convictions, but this is false.
The claim originated in a series of posts by Anti-Corruption Ireland last week.
Quotes attributed to Dr Mike Yeadon are inaccurate.
The Northern Trust has said that claims of lies about hospital capacity in the North are “ridiculous”.
The nurse has said her fainting was not linked to the vaccine, but to a health condition she has.
The photo was taken in 2018 when France won the World Cup.
The video, which has attracted hundreds of shares and likes on Facebook, makes a number of claims about PCR testing.
Ireland is seeing a lot of misinformation about vaccines right now – and there’s no sign of it stopping.
Deaths rose by 14.1% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.
A post on social media has falsely claimed that the NHS confirmed no Covid-19 deaths occurred among people without a pre-existing condition.
The Taoiseach has suggested that the bank guarantee was an investment.
A tweet going viral raises the spectre of some vaccines causing lasting genetic change to our cells, but this is untrue.
False claims have spread on social media about Covid-19 testing and vaccination.
Social media posts making the claim have been shared thousands of times in recent days.
Let’s take a look at how trials for the Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines have involved older age groups.
The head of the UK regulator who approved the Pfizer vaccine said its progress was “totally dependent” on the “rolling review” approach it took.
Staff from RTÉ did have a social gathering earlier this month – but this photo does not show it.
Posts on social media have wrongly claimed that PCR testing is inaccurate and produces a high rate of false positive results.
A number of different posts on Facebook with the same text have claimed that the assertion was made at a WHO briefing.
The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that this is incorrect.
Despite what the misleading claim says, the Fluenz Tetra vaccine has been authorised since 2013.
Guidance on mask-wearing in the German city of Düsseldorf has recently been updated, but the requirement to wear a mask has not been banned as claims suggest.
The PCR test is globally recognised as the gold standard method for detecting the coronavirus.
None of the members of the board of Pieta House are paid for their work.
The incorrect claim is being widely shared on social media.
This claim has been shared widely on Facebook recently.
A social media post claims older people have been given a higher dose of the vaccine as part of a “culling agenda”.
Posts containing this false claim have been shared on Facebook recently.
A TD said on RTÉ Radio One at the weekend: “We have stopped measuring suicide and self-harm in this country.”
No. It hasn’t.
The ad calls for an alternative approach to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
The leaflet was distributed in the name of Anti-Corruption Ireland, an anti-government group.
