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False: The majority of AIDS patients died from medication developed when Dr. Anthony Fauci led the nation’s response to the emerging epidemic, not from the virus itself. Social media users are once again sharing the long debunked notion that Fauci, the face of the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, advocated decades earlier for a drug to combat the emerging AIDS epidemic that turned out to be more deadly than the virus itself. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

Twenty thousand nurs...: Twenty thousand nurses left the New Zealand health system due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The claim 20,000 nurses left the New Zealand health system due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates is false. At the time the mandate ended, 440 nurses and midwives had been terminated, 67 had resigned and 83 had been stood down as a result of the vaccine requirements. The Nursing Council of New Zealand told AAP FactCheck the number of nurses holding Annual Practising Certificates increased over the pandemic period. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)