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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

“La gente estaba vacunándose en cantidades récord” hasta que Biden impuso los mandatos de vacunación.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Generally the deaths are still pretty flat because we've flattened the curve.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"My approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%."

Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The infant formula shortage was purposely created because Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates invested in artificial breast milk.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Covid-19 means ‘certificate of identification of vaccination with artificial intelligence.’”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Kary Mullis señaló toda su vida que el test PCR no sirve para la detección de virus

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Harvard scientists say the coronavirus is “spreading so fast that it will infect 70% of humanity this year.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“A couple of weeks ago, I started taking" hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. “Because I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence It Works

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.”

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

دیده‌ شدن موجودات و نخ‌های خطرناک در ماسک‌ها

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

Bernie SandersHealth & medicine

“Study after study has shown that as a nation we will save substantial sums of money, and the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health-care bills.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Vladimir Putin “orders destruction of all COVID-19 vaccines in Russia.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health “in North Carolina are diagnosing toddlers who play with stereotypically opposite gender toys as having gender dysphoria and are beginning to transition them!!”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Bill Gates: People who resist ‘mRNA tsunami’ will be excluded from society.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“In Germany, you must be fully vaxxed before your death by assisted suicide.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Wake up! Vaccine disaster ahead."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Florida to ban mRNA vaccines as credible evidence of biological weapons."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Wearing this bracelet aids in weight loss.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Thanks to the American Rescue Plan’s changes to the Affordable Care Act, “four out of five consumers (are) finding quality coverage for under $10 a month.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False