Health & medicine fact checks

“Over-vaccination causes faster mutation of the (COVID-19) virus, which causes a super virus we may not have the ability to fight off.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Video shows that certain drinks can “test positive” for COVID-19 when using at-home COVID-19 tests.

Publisher’s rating: False

New guidance says one day of isolation is sufficient for people with COVID-19. Misleading.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Anthony Fauci’s wife has “a secret plan to put psych drugs in drinking water” to get people vaccinated.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contains a Bluetooth microchip.

Publisher’s rating: False

Photos of monkeypox lesions prove the current virus outbreak is a hoax.

Publisher’s rating: False

“Texas Children’s Hospital pediatric clinics announce they will no longer treat unvaccinated children.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance

Publisher’s rating: False

“Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. If we keep bombarding the system over and over at so many well visits with an increasing scheduling there has to be a breaking point."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Says the 2019 coronavirus "causes sudden death syndrome."

Publisher’s rating: False

Says Wisconsin’s in-person election has caused a “surge” in new coronavirus cases

Publisher’s rating: False

“El tipo a cargo de la respuesta de Estados Unidos al COVID resulta ser el tipo que financió la creación del COVID. Estamos hablando de Tony Fauci".

Publisher’s rating: Origen COVID-19 aún es incierto

Mariah Carey faked getting her COVID-19 vaccine because the needle can’t be seen coming out of her arm.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says of the coronavirus threat, “there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.”

Publisher’s rating: True

“People who took the jab are technically ‘non human species.’”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

"We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance."

Publisher’s rating: False

A photo shows two Italian nurses in a hospital a few days before they got COVID-19 and died.

Publisher’s rating: False

Las pruebas de que la ivermectina funciona para tratar el COVID-19 son “poderosas” y “abrumadoras”.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

“Dr. Fauci: No reason to be wearing a mask.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Research from related reporting reproduces a March 2020 exchange between Dr. Anthony Fauci and CBS correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about masks. In the excerpt, LaPook asks Fauci about mask misinformation; Fauci says masks matter for someone infected to help prevent infecting others, then says people in the United States should not be walking around wearing them. When LaPook presses him on the point, Fauci says there is no reason to walk around with a mask. The wording in the claim is therefore a shortened version of a statement present in the supplied reporting, not a complete quotation: the excerpt says “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” It also includes Fauci’s qualification that a mask might block a droplet but would not provide the perfect protection some people expected, and his concern about people touching their faces while adjusting masks. This context helps establish what the quoted words referred to, but these excerpts do not provide the original interview recording or enough evidence to assess the broader accuracy of the advice or the fact-check rating.

Usuarios de medios sociales sugieren que hubo una conexión directa entre la muerte del legendario jugador de béisbol Hank Aaron y el hecho que haya recibido la vacuna más de dos semanas antes.

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence