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Health & medicine fact checks

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

13,676 published reviews in this topic

NewtralHealth & medicine

Pedro Sánchez ha mandado a Begoña Gómez y sus hijas a Cuenca a pasar la cuarentena

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned an audio alleging that Pedro Sánchez had sent his wife, Begoña Gómez, and their daughters to a town in Cuenca to quarantine. The account described in the review began after Gómez tested positive for coronavirus on March 15. The audio attributed the information to a woman’s cousin, Isabel, who supposedly lived in Cuenca; it did not present the claim as a firsthand account from the speaker. To check the claim, Newtral contacted the Huete town council. Huete was the locality named in the rumor. The council denied the audio’s allegation: the review quotes Huete’s mayor, Francisco Javier Doménech, saying, “No me consta que estén en Huete” (“I have no knowledge of them being in Huete”). Newtral concludes that the audio’s claim was false. The excerpt describes this denial but does not provide independent evidence of where the family was staying.

NewtralHealth & medicine

El limón y la vitamina C son remedios para el coronavirus

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examines a message circulated as audio and text that attributed advice to a supposed Chinese expert, Laila Ahmadi, and recommended lemon and vitamin C to prevent coronavirus. It reports that Ahmadi was not a Chinese expert but a medical student at Iran’s Zanjan University. The review also notes that health organizations advised people to rely on official recommendations prepared by health professionals rather than students. The message urged people to use as much natural vitamin C as possible to strengthen the immune system. The review distinguishes that general claim about vitamin C from the specific prevention advice: it cites Joan Carles March, co-director of the Andalusian School of Public Health, who said research showed vitamin C supplements did not reduce most people’s risk of catching the common cold, “much less” coronavirus. This evidence addresses the message’s prevention claim; the excerpt does not describe a test of lemon as a treatment.

BR24 FaktenfuchsHealth & medicine

In Deutschland soll oder wird es wegen Corona eine Impfpflicht oder Zwangsimpfung geben.

Publisher’s rating: Falsch - nach derzeitigem Stand. Eine "Impfpflicht" ist nicht vorgesehen, auch weil es noch keinen Impfstoff gegen das neue Coronavirus (Sars-COV-2) gibt. Gesetzlich sind einer "Impfpflicht" enge Grenzen gesetzt. Aktuelle Gesetze sehen derzeit nur für "bedrohte Teile" der Bevölkerung eine "Impfpflicht" vor. Einer solchen Pflicht muss der Bundesrat zustimmen. Der Bundesgesundheitsminister setzt auf Freiwilligkeit. Eine grundsätzliche "Impfpflicht" steht laut Experten im Gegensatz zu Artikel 2 des Grundgesetzes. Nur in Ausnahmefällen ist sie zu rechtfertigen. Die von Impfgegnern und Anhängern von Verschwörungsmythen prophezeite "Zwangsimpfung" ist Stimmungsmache.