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

13,676 published reviews in this topic

ComprovaHealth & medicine

Falta de distanciamento em Genebra, sede da OMS, mostra que pandemia é uma farsa

Publisher’s rating: Enganoso: Ao relacionar as imagens da reabertura em Genebra com o fato de a sede da OMS estar na mesma cidade e argumentar que isso revelaria uma “manipulação”, youtuber omite duas questões importantes. A primeira é que a pandemia está sob controle na Suíça depois de oito semanas de medidas restritivas de isolamento social. A segunda é que a OMS não tem poder para emitir ordens, nem mesmo na cidade onde fica a sua sede

NewtralHealth & medicine

El Gobierno publicó un documento el 5 de marzo con el que se exigía a las residencias que dejaran en sus cuartos a todos los mayores con sintomatología respiratoria aguda

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim says that a Spanish Government document published on 5 March required care homes to keep every older resident with acute respiratory symptoms in their rooms. The review distinguishes the document’s actual advice from that stronger claim: the document existed, but, according to the review, it did not impose a general requirement to keep residents confined or bar hospital transfers. The review quotes the guidance as saying that, “as a general rule,” residents with acute respiratory symptoms should restrict their movements as much as possible and stay in a well-ventilated room, preferably one facing outside and ideally with its own bathroom. It also reports that the Health Ministry clarified the advice applied to people with symptoms, not specifically to people diagnosed with COVID-19, and did not mean they could not be transferred to hospital. The review also distinguishes this advice from recommendations for suspected contacts and from guidance on hospital transfer. For a resident identified as a contact of a COVID-19 case, the document recommended remaining at the care home while public-health services assessed the situation. Separately, it said that a person classified as a contact of a probable or confirmed case whose general condition was good did not need to be transferred to a health centre. The review reports that the Ministry said it had not recommended keeping a seriously ill patient at the residence. These separate, conditional recommendations do not establish the claim’s blanket requirement for all older residents with acute respiratory symptoms.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturHealth & medicine

Un message diffusé le 8 juin 2020 sur la page Facebook du groupe public « La Plateforme Citoyenne – Het BurgerPlatform » annonce que l’Organisation mondiale de la santé suspend le vaccin Quinvaxem, qui a fait « déjà 26 enfants morts »

Publisher’s rating: C’est faux. Le message est calqué sur un autre, datant de 2013, quand une polémique sur le Quinvaxem a effectivement éclaté. Mais des études ont été réalisées et l’OMS n’a jamais suspendu l’utilisation du vaccin.

NewtralHealth & medicine

No existen vacunas que funcionen para virus de ARN (ácido ribonucleico)

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Newtral examines the claim that no vaccine works against any RNA virus in its review of statements made by molecular biologist Judy Mikovits in the widely shared video *Plandemic*. The article says the video circulated on social media and that the review follows the claims in the order they appear. Mikovits’s assertion about RNA-virus vaccines is addressed directly. The review cites María Garcés, a member of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics’ Vaccine Advisory Committee, who gives the MMR vaccine as a counterexample: it protects against three RNA viruses—measles, rubella and mumps. That example directly contradicts the claim’s categorical wording; it does not depend on whether a vaccine exists for every RNA virus. Newtral also reports that, according to the World Health Organization, measles vaccination saved more than 20 million children over the previous 15 years. The excerpt gives no further breakdown of that figure or additional vaccine examples, so the supported conclusion rests on the specific MMR counterexample and the reported measles impact.

ComprovaHealth & medicine

Família fica revoltada ao abrir caixão de criança morta sem limpeza nenhuma e descobrir que não foi por covid-19

Publisher’s rating: Comprovado: O procedimento de lacrar o caixão é padrão em casos de óbitos confirmados ou com suspeitas de coronavírus, como é o caso da morte de uma menina cujo caixão aparece em vídeo publicado nas redes sociais sendo aberto pela família. O resultado do exame foi divulgado somente uma semana depois e o teste deu negativo

NewtralHealth & medicine

Las vacunas matarán o han matado a millones de personas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Newtral examines the claim that vaccines have killed or will kill millions in the context of the Plandemic video. In the video, interviewer Mikki Willis raises the prospect of mandatory vaccination, and molecular biologist Judy Mikovits responds that vaccines “will kill millions, as they have already done with their vaccines.” The article presents that statement as one of several claims made during the interview and assesses it alongside a separate assertion that no effective RNA-virus vaccines exist. The review counters the claim with figures it attributes to the World Health Organization (WHO): immunization saves between two and three million lives each year, with the total potentially rising by another 1.5 million if worldwide coverage expands. It also reports that the WHO says measles vaccination saved more than 20 million children over the previous 15 years. These figures describe lives saved by vaccination; the excerpt does not provide a comparable count of vaccine-caused deaths. Newtral’s conclusion is that the claim about vaccines killing millions is false. The article also gives a specific example relevant to the accompanying assertion about RNA viruses. María Garcés, a member of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics’ vaccine advisory committee, cites the measles, rubella, and mumps viruses as RNA viruses against which the MMR vaccine protects. This supports the article’s rejection of the separate claim that there are no effective vaccines for RNA viruses. The excerpt does not set out a detailed adverse-event analysis or a calculation of vaccine-related deaths, so its cited evidence supports the conclusion principally through WHO-reported benefits and the specific vaccine example.