In the past week, we have already had BBC and ITV main news show outlets broadcasting information not supported by the facts, with Sky News having a contributor talking nonsense on stats in Wales.
Channel 4 gives us a full house across the mainstream media.
🚨🚨 Mirror - "Meanwhile, hospital intensive care units are filling up with Covid sufferers... in some cases 90% – of these patients have not been vaccinated"
🚨🚨 #Covid19 case fatality rate in South Africa is currently the lowest its been since start of the pandemic
◼️The rate is number of deaths divided by cases 10 days earlier
◼️Early days but this implies current wave less deadly & South Africa has lower vaccination rate than UK
This is one to track but this data at the moment supports the assertion by Dr Angelique Coetzee of the South African Medical Association who says its a mild disease.