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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

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Manifestación contra el coronavirus celebrada en Polonia el 29 de agosto

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Washington PostHealth & medicine

“With Ebola, we were talking about it before, you disintegrated. If you got Ebola, that was it. [Coronavirus] is like a flu, and this is a much different situation than Ebola.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

President Trump "has the military lined up and ready to distribute" the COVID-19 vaccine to the public, "whether you want it or not.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“When President Biden took office … there was no vaccine available.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Only 6% of the people actually died from COVID.” The others “died from other reasons.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force recommends “withholding food stamps and rent assistance from those who refuse coronavirus vaccines.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"The CDC issued its first warning on Jan 8. The first time Trump admitted the coronavirus might be a problem was Mar 13."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The World Health Organization has been working since 1974 on vaccines to create permanent sterility.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Joe Biden “had 308,000 military people dying because you couldn’t provide them proper healthcare in the military.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A video shows a nurse pretending to vaccinate actor Anthony Hopkins before squirting fluid in the syringe on the floor.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Rivers in Oklahoma are full of catfish carrying the virus.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Hank Aaron and Marvelous Marvin Hagler died “after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"It took [President Barack] Obama ‘millions infected and over 1,000 deaths’ to declare the H1N1 flu a health emergency,” but President Donald Trump “declared a health emergency” before the first coronavirus death.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video shows people collapsing because of COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

A video shows Joe Biden “looking at books about dementia.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“12 RESEARCH STUDIES PROVE MASKS DIDN’T WORK," referring to a Cochrane review on mask interventions.

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says President Joe Biden promoted "mandatory vaccines for everybody" in his March 11 address.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"I said from the beginning that no American who needs a ventilator would be denied a ventilator and we have kept that promise all over the United States."

Publisher’s rating: So far, it looks like it

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Florida hospital reports a coronavirus ‘infestation’ with multiple confirmed patients.”

Publisher’s rating: False