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Health & medicine fact checks

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

13,677 published reviews in this topic

NewtralHealth & medicine

Cuba ha desarrollado una vacuna contra el coronavirus llamada interferón alfa 2B

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim was that Cuba had a COVID-19 vaccine called interferon alfa 2B and could not sell it because of the U.S. blockade. The message also attributed an announcement about the supposed vaccine to Cuba’s president and said it was being made in a factory in China. The review rejects the vaccine claim and distinguishes the drug from a vaccine.

Projeto ComprovaHealth & medicine

Israel tem a melhor situação do mundo no controle do Coronavírus. São 1700 casos e 1 morte!!!! Sem isolamento indiscriminado, pelo contrário, na estratégia deles a prioridade é o isolamento do grupo de risco, sobretudo os idosos. Lá não lotou hospitais, UTIs e a economia funciona normalmente. Sou suspeito em acreditar piamente no que está sendo dito nesse vídeo, uma vez que eu amo Israel e admiro muito todas as suas ações, mas posto para nossa reflexão!!!

Publisher’s rating: Falso: Ao contrário do que afirma mensagem divulgada nas redes sociais, o país do Oriente Médio mantém ativas algumas medidas de isolamento e não tem a “melhor situação do mundo” diante da pandemia

NewtralHealth & medicine

La Comunidad de Madrid ha habilitado un número de teléfono para pedir recetas de medicamentos

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a WhatsApp message saying that the Community of Madrid had introduced a telephone service to ease pressure on health centres: callers could supposedly request prescriptions and have them loaded onto their health card. The review addresses that specific message and reports that the Community of Madrid denied setting up the service and asked people to share the correction. The excerpt does not describe how the regional government’s denial was obtained or provide further documentation about the phone number or prescription system. The conclusion presented in the review therefore rests, in the supplied text, on the Community of Madrid’s denial; no number or independent checking method is given.

NewtralHealth & medicine

El Gobierno paró de contabilizar los afectados y fallecidos por coronavirus entre el 6 y el 9 de marzo

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned an alleged pause in Spain’s coronavirus reporting from March 6 through March 9, supposedly intended to conceal deaths so the March 8 demonstration could go ahead. The review says the message circulated with an image of the Health Ministry website that showed no entries for March 7 and 8. It distinguishes that website display from whether officials counted or reported cases through other channels. To check the claim, Newtral reports examining the ministry’s and government public-health accounts, press appearances, media reports, and information from the ministry’s press office. It says case totals were published on official Twitter accounts on March 6, 7, 8 and 9. For March 8, the cited public-health post listed 589 total cases. The review also notes that Fernando Simón appeared at press conferences on both weekend days, with Health Minister Salvador Illa appearing on Sunday. For deaths, the review gives a chronology: three cases on March 5, five on March 6, eight on March 7, and 17 on March 8. It says the March 7 figure came from an EFE report with data confirmed by the ministry, and that the March 8 figure was reported by media and appeared in a National Security Department balance. The ministry website was not updated over the weekend, but the review says the ministry told Newtral that data were shared with journalists via Telegram and on social media. Thus, the missing weekend entries on that website do not establish that counting or reporting stopped.