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![Image accompanying “We will start distributing [a coronavirus vaccine] immediately. …To the general public, very shortly there — I mean, really, to the general public: immediately](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Trump-9-16.png)
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Roe was the end of women dying from abortions.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said he will not “take a PCR COVID test.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“They've now killed close to twice as many kids from the vaccine as have died from COVID.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Photo shows a crowded New York City subway train during stay-at-home order.
Publisher’s rating: True
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Ghislaine Maxwell has tested positive for COVID-19 in New Hampshire jail, DOJ reports"
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says drinking a bleach solution will prevent you from getting the coronavirus.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“CDC announces that students may be kept from parents overnight as Ohio sets up COVID-19 FEMA camps.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
No new COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh, India, due to use of ivermectin
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Herbal remedies are an option for at-home abortions.
Publisher’s rating: Herbal Remedies are Dangerous
![Image accompanying "[W]hen I turn on the news, I see, 'cases, cases, cases.' They don’t talk about deaths being cut down to a level that — actually, 'tenfold,' they use."](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/covid_patient.jpg)
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"[W]hen I turn on the news, I see, 'cases, cases, cases.' They don’t talk about deaths being cut down to a level that — actually, 'tenfold,' they use."
Publisher’s rating: Outdated Figure
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Around the world, people who exercise their "health autonomy" and don't get vaccinated are being put "basically into internment camps."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“This whole COVID thing? It’s a SIMULATION.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The World Health Organization director general confirmed “some countries are using boosters to kill children.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"We’ve made it possible for you to get a vaccine at nearly any one of 10,000 pharmacies across the country, just like you get your flu shot."
Publisher’s rating: Takes Too Much Credit
![Image accompanying "¿Se está añadiendo Tris a estos viales para niños [de la vacuna pediátrica contra el COVID-19 de Pfizer/BioNTech] para tratar de ocultar los eventos cardiovasc](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/misleading_pfizer_claim.jpg)
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says the Asian, Hong Kong, swine and bird flus each “killed more people than coronavirus.”
Publisher’s rating: False