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PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"80% of people taking the Moderna vaccine had significant side effects, via Bill Gates."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"If you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I'll go, ‘No. Are you healthy? Are you a healthy person?’ Like, look, don't do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. If you're a healthy person, and you're exercising all the time, and you're young, and you’re eating well, I don't think you need to worry about this."
Publisher’s rating: Fauci, eight experts disagree
![Image accompanying “You could fly out of Wuhan where the primary problem was … and you could go to different parts of the world, but you couldn’t go [from Wuhan] to Beijing and y](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/airplane-over-world2.jpg)
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Voluntaria de la vacuna de Pfizer sufre una erupción medicamentosa fija como efecto adverso
Publisher’s rating: Falso
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“A new mysterious respiratory illness is emerging in China" among children.
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
COVID-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pouring shots for a group of people “days before testing positive” for COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Coronavirus vaccinations seem to be causing 50 times the adverse events of flu vaccinations after just the first of two shots.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The Obama administration "didn't do anything about” swine flu.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
A 1970s public service announcement offers tips for avoiding the coronavirus.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Plan B contraceptive pills have been banned through new abortion legislation in Tennessee and Missouri.
Publisher’s rating: False
![Image accompanying "Está probado que el remdesivir [tramiento contra el COVID-19] mata vidas"](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Remdesivir.jpg)
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Está probado que el remdesivir [tramiento contra el COVID-19] mata vidas"
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"On average, one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia."
Publisher’s rating: True
FactStreamHealth & medicine
"Biden y los Dems están yendo a la puerta de su casa para forzarlo a recibir la vacuna" contra el COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: No hay pruebas
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID, we're still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over.”
Publisher’s rating: Some Scientists Disagree
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“New Zealand okays euthanasia for COVID patients.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
![Image accompanying "We had set up in our administration a pandemic office within the White House. There were 44 people on the ground [in China]. ... All those 44 people came home,](https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/abctownhall2.jpg)
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries "was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month."
Publisher’s rating: Half True