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Hello and welcome to More or Less, the show that tracks down suspects statistics, traces

who's been using them and isolates them from the solid majority of data points, which

are healthy and reliable.

I'm Tim Halford.

This week, grand claims have been made about treating Covid sufferers with a blood

plasma of Covid survivors.

We pick the scraps of evidence out of a steaming heap of exaggerations.

Is the virus spreading again in the UK?

We look at the data.

The BBC says that early breast cancer screening saves lives.

Does it?

And hopefully, time to investigate an astonishing claim about the number of sex workers in

Georgian London before the end of the programme.

So first, last Saturday, US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to complain about how

the country's food and drug administration, the body that authorises drugs and medical

treatments, was part of what the president called the Deep State, which is not a compliment.

He added that the FDA was making it difficult for drug companies to test vaccines and therapeutics.

Obviously, he wrote, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd, the date

of the presidential election.

He tagged the Commissioner of the FDA, Stephen Hahn, in his tweet.

As if by magic, the next day, there was a press conference at the White House.

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