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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

“I think we’re doing very well, and I think that we have done as well as any nation. If you really look, if you take a look at what’s going on, especially now with all these flareups and nations that they were talking about.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Twelve babies died from taking RSV drug in clinical trials.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak "has banned the use of an anti-malaria drug that might help cure coronavirus.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“The FDA has finally admitted that Pfizer causes blood clots.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate at work! Suddenly, we're short on pilots & air traffic controllers."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The film "Died Suddenly" proves that COVID-19 vaccines are part of a depopulation scheme by global elites who want to establish a global regime.

Publisher’s rating: Repeats debunked COVID-19 vaccine claims, promotes conspiracy theory

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says if you're refused service at a store for not wearing a mask “call the department of health and report the store. Masks are suggested, not required.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"We are 25% of the [COVID-19] cases and the deaths, 25%. We have the worst record of any country in the world."

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Dr. Ben Carson discovered 3 completely natural ingredients that resulted in headaches disappearing, blood cholesterol levels lowering, and elevated blood pressure disappearing.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"¡Despierte! Desastre creado por vacunas ya viene"

Publisher’s rating: Deforma los hechos

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"President Joe Biden Announces Americans Not Vaccinated Before 2022 Will Be Put In Camps."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

In Australia, a “17% increase in heart attack deaths” in the first eight months of 2022 is linked to COVID-19 vaccination.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“The Government have announced measures that all workplaces with 10 employees or more are to have paid mandatory leave to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus starting from March 6, 2020."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Elizabeth Warren erroneously said there were 25,000 new [COVID-19] cases today" and "2,000 deaths."

Publisher’s rating: We Review the Trends

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A French life insurance company refused to pay benefits for a man who died after receiving the vaccine because the insurer deemed it “a medical experiment.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates" the coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Only 325,000 American kids out of 19,000,000" were vaccinated against COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False