Health & medicine fact checks

The 2008 book “End of Days” predicted the current coronavirus outbreak.

Publisher’s rating: False

"FDA finally admits dental fillings are toxic."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

“The coronavirus … and this is their new hoax.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

“La vacuna mató a Marvin Hagler”.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

El hisopo nasal empleado en las pruebas para descartar el COVID-19 "ESTÁ DISEÑADO PARA ESTERILIZAR Y CAUSAR CÁNCER."

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Says "Every single person who has cancer has a pH that is too acidic," and claims Dr. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Peace Prize for proving that cancer can’t survive in an alkaline-rich environment and thrives in an acidic, low oxygen environment.

Publisher’s rating: False

La COVID-19 se cura con una bebida de jengibre, limón, aspirinas, canela, miel, ajo y cebolla roja

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Social media users suggest there is a direct link between baseball legend Hank Aaron getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and then dying more than two weeks later.

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

“The CDC failed to mention on their website the COVID-19 vaccines as one of the factors that can increase this risk [of blood clots].”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

“About 40% to 50% of CDC, FDA employees are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, according to” Anthony Fauci and FDA’s Peter Marks.

Publisher’s rating: False

Because of a change in death certificate procedures specific to COVID-19, "there is a huge chance that COVID death numbers are exaggerated, to the tune of 94%."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.org examined a claim made by Pennsylvania radio host Wendy Bell during a March 25 episode of her show: that a COVID-specific change to death-certificate procedures created a 94% exaggeration in reported deaths. The review says the claim rested on a flawed paper that argued the CDC changed its counting guidance and violated federal law. The review’s central finding is that the CDC had not altered how COVID-19 death certificates were filled out, and that no federal law governed the process.

A graphic on U.S. abortion rates shows larger declines during recent Democratic presidential administrations, and says its due to the party’s approach of making abortions unnecessary, rather than the Republican Party’s approach of making the procedure illegal.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Drinking or using tap water treated with chlorine is dangerous because “chlorine is a poison.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Reader question: Does Vitamin D Protect Against COVID-19?

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

Speaking of travel restrictions in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus: "But we closed those borders very early, against the advice of a lot of professionals ... I would say everybody said, it's too early, it's too soon, and good people, brilliant people, in many ways, doctors and lawyers and, frankly, a lot of people that work on this stuff almost exclusively. And they said, don't do it."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

El COVID-19 es equivalente a un “resfriado común”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Cada vez que alguien da positivo en COVID-19 en una prueba PCR la comunidad autónoma o el hospital reciben 2.500 euros

Publisher’s rating: Falso

“The annual influenza vaccine program ... it’s wrapped around the idea that we should force … the population to take a product on an annual basis so that we can maintain warm base manufacturing in case something like 1918 ever happens again.”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are “really gene therapy.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“Friendly reminder: Cigarettes are FDA approved.”

Publisher’s rating: False