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Health & medicine fact checks
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PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“The excess mortality rate is among the best in the whole world."
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Why is the Taliban banning the [COVID-19] vaccines?"
Publisher’s rating: There is currently no such ban
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"New Peer-Reviewed Study: COVID-19 Vaccines Increase Risk of Cardiac Arrest in Young People by 25 Percent."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "finally admits their vaccines do not prevent anyone from getting or spreading the virus."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says Nostradamus predicted the coronavirus in a 1551 passage about a plague spreading from the east.
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
“If you look at swine flu …17,000 people died.”
Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
The "[e]stimated human cost" of the COVID-19 vaccines is 26.6 million injuries, 1.36 million disabilities and "300k excess deaths."
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
News outlets are misusing a boy’s image to report the same child died of COVID-19 in three different countries.
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Pfizer “Director Concerned Over Women’s Reproductive [Health] After COVID-19 Vaccinations.”
Publisher’s rating: Studies Found No Concerns
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Homemade baby formula recipes offer a ‘viable option’ during U.S. shortage
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Así sacan los cadáveres de fallecidos por COVID-19 de un hospital de Rusia
Publisher’s rating: Falso
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
The coronavirus "didn’t go to Beijing. It didn’t go to other parts of China" besides Wuhan. "They stopped it cold."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“We passed one of the first (COVID-19) bills in the entire country, empowering Gov. Evers to act.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"Schoolchildren actually aren’t vectors" for COVID-19
Publisher’s rating: Not settled science
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True