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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

Chinese scientists “created (a) new COVID-19 strain (with) 100% fatality.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.”

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"The guy in charge of America’s response to COVID turns out to be the guy who funded the creation of COVID. We’re speaking of Tony Fauci."

Publisher’s rating: COVID-19 Origins Remain Unknown

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

President Joe Biden signed an executive order “making health insurance free for qualifying Americans.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Un lector de microchips para mascotas detectó un chip en el brazo de una mujer vacunada contra el COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“This is what Bill Gates and George Soros want to do… secretly stick you with a chip while testing you for the coronavirus... the Dems have a bill on the House floor ready to vote on it to require this.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The contagiousness of the coronavirus delta variant is “valued between 5 and 9½,” and if the value is closer to 10, “within six weeks, the whole country will test positive for delta, regardless of vaccination.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A photo of coffins in the 2017 movie "Unlocked" is being used by news media "telling us that this is ITALY right now because of COVID 19 virus!!”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Anyone who’s over 70 who gets one of these [COVID-19] mRNA vaccines will probably be — sadly die within about two to three years."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Fauci doesn’t trust new vaccine research as delta variant surges.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

According to a recent CDC report, "almost everyone — 85% — who got the coronavirus in July was wearing a mask, and they were infected anyway. So clearly (wearing a mask) doesn’t work the way they tell us it works.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"There’s been some tremendous signs that this could work. Now, again, you know, some doctors think it should go for years in testing. But, you know, this has been something that’s been around for many years. It’s been phenomenal — a strong, powerful drug for malaria. But we think it might work on this [COVID-19], based on evidence — based on very strong evidence."

Publisher’s rating: Evidence Is Slim

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“CDC study shows 74% of people infected in MA Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated debunking the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ narrative."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Bill Gates said, “We need to develop a digital certificate that shows who has received all the vaccinations. Only those with all the required vaccinations may travel, visit churches, participate in sports and music events, get a job, etc.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

World renowned experts” declare that we should “live normally, practice simple hygiene,” stay home when sick and use protective measures only with “the most vulnerable populations.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Pesa CheckHealth & medicine

Kawangware to be placed under lockdown on May 6 at 7pm for tests

Publisher’s rating: False.

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“You can’t tell me they can (develop a safe vaccine) in eight to 10 months. Or a year. It takes more time than that.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Hydroxychloroquine "appears to work … in a very significant way.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading