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This is The Telegraph, a conservative UK paper that published such Covid-19 misinformation as the common cold conveying immunity against Covid-19 and the lockdowns were dumb and herd immunity was the way. Being devoid of fact is a feature not a bug. Fluff pieces like this from biased news sources known for spreading misinformation have no place on Hacker News.

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I think I found the article you are referring to. [1] I don't think that's a good example of misinformation. Here's a recent report by Reuters on the same topic. [2]

I agree that The Telegraph is not the most reliable source of the news [3], but that doesn't make anything they report on automatically false.

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

[3]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/

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