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11 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
On BBC Radio 2 today, a caller misled producers about his intentions in order to get on air, before spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccines.

Presenter @theJeremyVine strongly challenged the false claim, and we applaud him for doing so.

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The false claim the caller mentioned, which is popular online, is that 1500 people have died from the Covid vaccines.

These deaths were reported to have happened *after* vaccination, but not necessarily *because* of vaccination.

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These are called Yellow Card reports.

The Yellow Card scheme is used by the medicines regulator to investigate possible links between vaccines and adverse effects, even if the reporter isn’t sure that it was caused by the vaccine.

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This scheme is often misunderstood, and we have written a number of fact checks on the subject.

We've compiled some of them here 👇 [4/4]

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