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![Image accompanying “[W]hen we came here, you had very few ventilators in this country. … [W]e stocked up those shelves. The cupboard was empty, and we filled up the cupboards.”](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/ventilator_training.jpg)
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"Starting the next day, Dr. [Nancy] Messonnier no longer appeared at public briefings of the White House coronavirus task force. The president and the White House sent a clear message to scientists in the government -- there would be a price for speaking out and speaking up."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Research from Japan shows “ivermectin is effective against omicron in Phase III trial.”
Publisher’s rating: False
An E. coli outbreak followed former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.
Publisher’s rating: False
![Image accompanying "1989 is the year the [autism] epidemic began. It’s a red line. And 1989 was the year the vaccine schedule exploded. That doesn’t mean that’s a correlation. It](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/rfk-jr-720x307-1.jpg)
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"They asked [President Donald Trump] where he got the COVID, he said, 'I probably got it from Blue Star parents.'"
Publisher’s rating: False
“Half of CDC, NIH, and FDA Employees Refused the Experimental COVID-19 Jabs.”
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
“National Guard doctors find hospitals empty of COVID patients.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Comedian Heather McDonald collapsed on stage as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Publisher’s rating: False
Related reporting identifies the event as comedian Heather McDonald’s collapse during a stand-up show in February 2022. It says she joked shortly beforehand, “I’m vaxxed, double vaxxed boosted.” The excerpt also reproduces claims that the collapse followed her remarks and was caused by the COVID vaccine, but it does not provide evidence establishing that causal link. The material in the excerpt is limited: it includes a report that McDonald appears in the trailer for the anti-vaccine film “Died Suddenly,” and describes the film’s framing of her collapse. It does not give medical findings or another documented explanation for why she collapsed. Thus, this supplied reporting establishes the event and the context of the vaccine-related claim, but does not, by itself, determine the cause.
Un estudio de 2004 “descubrió que los niños afroestadounidenses que recibían la vacuna SPR ‘a tiempo’, a la edad de tres años tienen 3,36 más probabilidades de ser diagnosticados con autismo severo que niños afroestadounidenses vacunados más tarde”.
Publisher’s rating: Estudio No Dice Eso
“Ticketmaster is planning mandatory COVID vaccine identification for concert attendance.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Pfizer executive makes "shocking admission" that vaccine was never tested for whether it prevented transmission.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Photo shows “the jabbed and the unjabbed … separated with a fence in a supermarket” in Germany.
Publisher’s rating: False
Bill Gates "has been investing heavily in synthetic soy breast milk" and is behind the baby formula shortage.
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
"Wuhan’s corona virus can be cured by one bowl of freshly boiled garlic water."
Publisher’s rating: False
"One of the greatest mysteries of COVID-19: Where did the flu go in 2020 and 2021?"
Publisher’s rating: Reduced by pandemic measures