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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

"All males who have been vaccinated" against COVID-19 "are effectively sterile."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Pictures and reports of “empty hospitals” prove COVID-19 spread is “fake crisis for real government planned agendas.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

Todos los pacientes de COVID-19 ingresados recientemente en un hospital del condado de Palm Beach estaban vacunados.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video of man using an air-quality monitor proves that people are “not getting enough oxygen” while wearing masks

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"We have a president of the United States, [who said] you know, 'Doesn't matter, go to work,'" even if you think you have symptoms of the new coronavirus infection.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The CDC delivers groceries and cleaning products “twice while you’re in quarantine.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

روغن‌های خوراکی به دست آمده از دانه‌های روغنی، حاوی هگزان و پارافین و خطرناک هستند و نباید از آنها استفاده کرد.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

The COVID-19 vaccine trials were a “theatrical performance … they were actually not real.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"El plan de la administración de Biden mataría a 5.248 niños con las vacunas de ARNm de Pfizer para salvar a 45 niños de morir por el coronavirus”

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The coronavirus has made it to Mississippi and the lady that caught it wasn’t around nobody with it which means it is airborne. That means if the wind blows it your direction you’ll have it also.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Florida has the "lowest Covid rates in the country without having to institute communist mandates & lockdowns."

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

Washington PostHealth & medicine

“So the so-called HHS Whistleblower was against HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. Then why did he make, and sign, an emergency use authorization? ... A dumb @60Minutes hit job on a grandstanding Never Trumper!”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

Sens3Health & medicine

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Una hora después de que Joe Biden jurara, la OMS admite que sus pruebas exageran groseramente los individuos con resultados positivos de COVID."

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The government has released their initial plans to force a vaccine on everyone.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“As the news tries to fear-monger about the measles ‘outbreak’ of 9 whole people, remember that the vaccine is more dangerous than the actual illness.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer doctors and longer wait times.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"[C]hilling data showing 44 percent* of pregnant women participating in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine trial suffered miscarriages."

Publisher’s rating: False