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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

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The vaccination campaign” increased COVID-19 deaths by 175% in one year.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Kamala Harris said only vaccinated people are hospitalized and dying from COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Announced a request for a grand jury probe into “crimes and wrongdoing” related to the COVID-19 vaccines, suggesting the shots were too risky.

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Wisconsin is “clearly seeing a decline in COVID infections”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t “prevent catching or spreading” the virus “and only lasts months.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Evidence that ivermectin works to treat COVID-19 is “powerful” and “overwhelming.”

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“They didn’t do the human testing [for COVID-19 vaccines] and they stopped the animal tests because the animals were dying, and then they turned it out for the public.”

Publisher’s rating: False

zoonewsHealth & medicine

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Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Hay una cura para el coronavirus que consiste en aspirinas y limón

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Wife of Pfizer’s CEO dies after complications from the vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

El Instituto de Salud Carlos III dice en un informe que la pandemia de coronavirus ha terminado.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Varios municipios y pedanías de Murcia pasan a la fase 1 de confinamiento el jueves 30 de julio

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Kid Rock tweeted, “Some people wouldn’t recognize tyranny if it slapped a mask on their face, made them stand 6 feet apart, and forced them to take a vaccine for a virus with a 99.8% survival rate.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Mayo Clinic study shows Pfizer vaccine dropped to 42% effective.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"We have fewer [COVID-19] deaths per capita than ... most other nations in Western Europe."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

COVID-19 is a synthetic version of “snake venom” that evil forces are spreading through remdesivir, the COVID-19 vaccines and drinking water to “make you a hybrid of Satan.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Monkeypox is biological warfare “against us by our governments.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"We have technology and medical advancements today that can tell you if you are pregnant the day after conception."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Coronavirus is a Latin word for “heart attack virus.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Russia has ordered destruction of all COVID-19 vaccine stockpiles.

Publisher’s rating: False