Claim: Eight per cent of people in the English town of Swindon attended hospital in 2021 for heart-related issues.
Fact-check: Faulty data at the heart of myocarditis claim
Verdict: false. the claim is based on faulty hospital data that inflated the number of heart-related attendances. the data has been retracted and corrected.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: William Summers
Date published: 2023-01-16T00:00:00