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Health & medicine fact checks
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
A popular social media post says that a mobile COVID-19 testing facility bears "a logo of Anubis the god of Death."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“My wife is suffering from coronavirus and she is pregnant. The doctor said she won’t survive it.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“We do not have an approved (COVID) vaccine in America … the Pfizer vaccine available in the U.S. is not FDA approved.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"You know, before we had a single coronavirus case in this country, this President shut down all travel from China."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"The NEXT pandemic is here and children are the target, says Bill Gates.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“So the vaccine don’t protect you from covid ???”
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Bill Gates confirma que van a implantar chips en las vacunas del SARS-CoV-2
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
A banner for COVID-19 vaccines says, “Don’t forget to donate your childrens organs.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Students "don’t catch it easily; they don’t bring it home easily."
Publisher’s rating: Not for older students
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says there are fewer than 2,000 confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Images show COVID-19 victims being buried in mass graves in New York City.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Correo del Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social para notificar una infracción por no llevar la mascarilla.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
A patient discharge document proves that “The WHO and CDC do NOT recommend that healthy people wear masks.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Fact Crescendo Sri LankaHealth & medicine
රු.76,000 පිළිකා එන්නත රු. 370 දක්වා පහත දැමීමේ කතාවේ ඇත්ත !
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Rainbow fentanyl is a threat to children on Halloween.
Publisher’s rating: False