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Health & medicine fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about health & medicine. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

13,674 published reviews in this topic

APA - Austrian Presse AgenturHealth & medicine

Kinder werden gegen Covid-19 geimpft. Es gibt bereits mehrere tote Kinder nach Impfungen. Der Impfstoff wird über die Muttermilch an den Säugling weitergegeben. Das kann zu schweren Nebenwirkungen führen.

Publisher’s rating: Laut der Europäischen Arzneimittel-Agentur (EMA) fließen in ihre Datenbank auch vermutete Impf-Nebenwirkungen von „off label”-Anwendungen ein. Darunter fallen Impfungen bei Kindern. Prinzipiell werden Kinder aber noch nicht gegen das Coronavirus geimpft. Über Kausalität sagen die Eintragungen in der Datenbank nichts aus. Es gibt keine Belege dafür, dass Impfstoffe über die Muttermilch an den Säugling weitergegeben werden.

ComprovaHealth & medicine

Técnicos da Anvisa liberaram agrotóxicos banidos na Europa mas não a importação da vacina Sputnik V. Não é politização, é coincidência...

Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO: A Anvisa não autorizou a importação da vacina russa Sputnik V alegando falta de dados consistentes e confiáveis. Uma postagem feita no Twitter atribui a decisão a posicionamento político, comparando-a com a liberação de agrotóxicos. As áreas da Anvisa responsáveis pela análise de vacinas e agrotóxicos, entretanto, não são as mesmas e especialistas defendem critérios técnicos da agência reguladora.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Taking lemon drops into your nose kills Coronavirus

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examines a social-media post and accompanying video claiming that putting lemon drops directly into the nose kills coronavirus in five seconds. It concludes that there is no scientific evidence for that claim, and says lemon cannot prevent or cure COVID-19. The excerpt identifies the video and post as the subject of the investigation but does not describe any independent laboratory test of lemon juice against the virus. To support its assessment, the review reports consulting statements from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the World Health Organization. It says the National Academies stated that lemon juice’s acid would not kill coronaviruses in the body, and that Harvard found no clear or convincing evidence that vitamin C works for COVID-19. It also reports that WHO found no scientific evidence that lemon prevents COVID-19. The review distinguishes possible general benefits of lemon from evidence for treating COVID-19: it notes that lemon contains vitamin C and may have other health benefits, but says these do not establish that it kills coronavirus or cures the disease. It also mentions a separate claim by former MP Vijay Sankeshwar that nasal lemon juice raised oxygen levels, while noting that the cited news article provided no evidence of an effect on blood oxygen saturation.