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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Ben Mitchell

Official Covid-19 advice ‘scared’ people into dishonestly jumping vaccine queue

Official Covid-19 advice which raised “fear levels” to encourage people to obey pandemic rules led people to act dishonestly and attempt to jump the queue for vaccines, a new study has found.

But those with money worries caused by lockdowns were no more likely than others to make a fraudulent claim for furlough cash, the researchers from the University of Southampton discovered.

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