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FACTSHEET: Excess deaths in South Africa explained
The number of excess deaths may be a more accurate and concerning measure of the Covid pandemic than the daily death toll. But how are exces
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FACTSHEET: How deaths are recorded in South Africa
Covid has trained a spotlight on causes of death and how deaths are recorded across the world. We disentangle what paperwork has to be filed...
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No, your life insurance is not ‘null and void’ if you get a Covid-19 vaccine
Experts say recent claims that getting the Covid vaccine will render your life insurance policy invalid are false and scaremongering.
ANALYSIS: Snappy anti-lockdown poster misrepresents Covid-19 and vaccination death rates
This slogan from a recent protest in South Africa’s largest city may grab attention, but little data there is so far firmly contradicts it.
Getting fact-checkers' methods into the curriculum: the six Cs of misinformation literacy
A new study argues for an expanded definition of media literacy.