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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

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The CDC director just said that 75% of ‘Covid deaths’ occurred in people with at least four comorbidities.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"El CDC realmente elaboró un documento que argumenta poner a personas de alto riesgo en campamentos para ‘resguardar’ a las personas de bajo riesgo de ellos” ... cada una de las personas que han hecho una referencia a la Alemania de los años 30 han sido vindicadas”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, Target and Costco “have not had any reported (coronavirus) cases in the news.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“CDC ahora exigen DOS mascarillas: ¿ciencia o tiranía?”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"We had a ventilator problem that was caused by the fact that we weren’t left ventilators by a previous administration."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Our Spike Support product is the bedrock of the recently-published ‘Base Spike Detoxification Protocol,’ the first and only regimen to help people recover from post-acute sequelae after COVID-19 and vaccination.”

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The best type” of drinking water is H3O2, from fruits, “a more structured form of water.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says there is a 4,250% increase in fetal death from the flu shot.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"La ivermectina aparentemente esteriliza a la mayoría (85%) de los hombres que la toman."

Publisher’s rating: No hay pruebas

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“We’ve been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-thru tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car.”

Publisher’s rating: Still in the works

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Two million more people (were) without health insurance" in 2018, compared to 2017.

Publisher’s rating: New data says so

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

La jueza Sonia Sotomayor tuvo un resultado positivo para el COVID-19, según una publicación en Facebook que muestra una imagen de un titular falso de CNBC.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video shows a child who tested positive for COVID-19 “being separated from their parents.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Warnings about heart problems and blood clots in cold weather are to cover up COVID-19 vaccine side effects.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“74% of sudden deaths are shown to be due to the COVID-19 vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

No one under 20 has died of COVID-19, and "it has not actually been determined yet" that anyone under 20 can spread it to an older person

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Photo shows "France today" and that "people are waking up against vaccine tyranny and new world order!"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Food and Drug Administration approval for updated COVID-19 vaccines requires a public health emergency declaration.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"America will be the first country -- perhaps the only one" -- to administer 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story