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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
A new study shows "No Discernable Benefit of COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy" and provides "No Assurances on Safety."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Mural de personas con mascarillas en el aeropuerto de Denver en 1994 predijo la pandemia de coronavirus
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
University of Miami researchers have found that the COVID-19 vaccine affects sperm production.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“Bueno, el grupo más grande, en la mayoría de los estados, son los afroamericanos que no se han vacunado".
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
New York state “hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"SEIU was CAUGHT HIDING 39 MILLION N95 MASKS."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Photo shows “Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
A photo shows two COVID-19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The coronavirus has seen a “big surge in New Zealand. It's terrible. We don't want that."
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Una lista de atletas lesionados por las vacunas contra el COVID-19 “muestra que puede haber algo malo con la vacuna".
Publisher’s rating: Distorsiona los hechos
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“If you’re white, you don’t get the [COVID-19] vaccine or if you’re white, you don’t get [COVID-19] therapeutics.”
Publisher’s rating: Exaggerates
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video shows Dr. Ben Carson promoting an erectile dysfunction treatment.
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"The United States has achieved a significant lower [COVID-19] mortality rate than almost all other countries."
Publisher’s rating: Not What Data Show
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Holiday heart syndrome” is a cover for deaths caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Four pharmaceutical companies have questionable track records that suggest their COVID-19 vaccines aren’t safe.
Publisher’s rating: Half True