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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

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Sin un ápice de datos clínicos para fundamentar su decisión, el gobierno de Biden ha revocado la autorización de uso de emergencia para tratamientos con anticuerpos monoclonales que salvan vidas".

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

COVID-19 “surges among most vaxxed communities, says Harvard study.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A registered nurse in Nashville, Tenn., developed Bell’s Palsy after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Private insurance gives … better coverage” than people would get under a Medicaid expansion.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"COVID-19 started because we eat animals."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Un test de calidad del aire muestra que las mascarillas no son saludables e impiden que respiremos bien

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Gender affirming care should be off-limits for minors even with parental consent, because "you can't get a tattoo under the age of 18 in most states in the country."

Publisher’s rating: 32 states allow parental consent

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

CDC data show more than 18 million people “were injured so badly” by a Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine “that they had to go to the hospital.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Vera FilesHealth & medicine

Stopping sugar intake will cause cancer cell death.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says it doesn't make sense for young adults to get the vaccine since they "really are not under that much of a threat as a result of this virus."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Although intuitively I think it probably seemed like social distancing would be necessary, there was no real scientific basis for believing that, since it had never been studied."

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Bill Gates ha dicho que morirán más de 700.000 personas por la vacuna del coronavirus

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Los niños están contrayendo hepatitis. Está siendo causada por un adenovirus. La J&J tenía un vector de adenovirus. Obvio que no esté relacionado”.

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

Vera FilesHealth & medicine

Drinking 10 glasses of water a day can treat bladder cancer

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The WHO is developing a pandemic treaty that will remove current human rights protections, enforce surveillance and censorship and eliminate freedom of speech.

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

En una residencia de ancianos madrileña han muerto, en los últimos 20 días, 97 de los 120 ancianos que allí vivían. Ha sucedido al poco de ponerles la vacuna de la gripe, a principios de septiembre.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Head of Pfizer research: Covid vaccine is female sterilization.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostHealth & medicine

“We have tested over 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases, 99 percent of which are totally harmless.

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios