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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

The COVID-19 vaccines “fight the virus wrong and let the virus become worse than it would with native infection.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"[S]tudies confirm that covid damages the immune system, making everyone who got infected immunocompromised."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Blood “starts to clot in a minute or two” after a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine injection.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Due to differing lockdown orders, New York has more COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and job losses than Florida, and New York also lags on vaccinations.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

“Es un negocio tan grande que en 2004, agencias de EE. UU. en busca de mayor financiamiento cambiaron la definición de pandemia de ‘una infección que se propaga rápidamente y mata a mucha gente’ a ‘una infección que se propaga rápidamente’”.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Healthy pilots are suffering from myocarditis and dropping dead on flights” because of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“AstraZeneca finally WITHDRAW Covid vaccine worldwide, months after" the company "admitted" rare side effect "for the first time in court documents"

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Face masks have been proven "unsafe" and "ineffective," and cause "facial deformities."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Merriam-Webster recently changed its definition of the word “vaccine” and removed the immunity portion.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Germany halts all Covid-19 vaccines, says they are unsafe and no longer recommended!!”

Publisher’s rating: False

El Detector / Univision NoticiasHealth & medicine

Se pueden mezclar varios tipos de vacunas contra el covid-19 e inyectar a un mismo paciente dosis de distintos laboratorios

Publisher’s rating: Falta contexto / No hay evidencias

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Anthony Fauci’s statement that the coronavirus death rate is 10 times that of the seasonal flu is “a claim without any scientific basis."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"This information, directly from CDC, tells us that more babies are going to die from receiving nirsevimab than they will from RSV."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says news stories referencing 322 and COVID-19 are proof cases are being “synchronized”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“El nuevo antiviral oral de Pfizer es un inhibidor de la proteasa igual que la ivermectina. Literalmente están reenvasando la ivermectina para venderla a las masas con un nuevo nombre”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

In New York, "every contaminated corpse" of those who died from COVID-19 "belongs to the state" and will be incinerated without any "wakes or memorial services to pay your last respects."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

COVID spelled backward is “divoc” which means "possession of the evil spirit" in Hebrew.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

A viral image circulating online is advising social media users that gargling water with salt or vinegar “eliminates” the coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Information from Vienna’s laboratory studying COVID-19 say vast majority of people who died had ibuprofen/Advil in their system so do not take it!!"

Publisher’s rating: False