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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Videos of magnets sticking to arms prove that the COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Photo shows “Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla wearing a mask in November 2023.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Photo shows packed beach of re-opened Jacksonville Beach on CNN.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Wearing masks is “COVID theater” and “not doing anything.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“CDC is no longer releasing data comparing vaccinated vs unvaccinated deaths & hospitalizations.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Los CDC “oficialmente recomiendan la administración de ivermectina como terapia presuntiva (dar medicamentos sin diagnóstico) para los refugiados”.
Publisher’s rating: no toda la historia
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Video shows "nurse pass out after receiving the COVID vaccine. It's so safe though, right?"
Publisher’s rating: Not caused by vaccine
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"THREE DOCTORS From the Same Hospital 'Die Suddenly' in the Same Week After Hospital Mandates Fourth COVID Shot."
Publisher’s rating: Deaths Not Connected to Vaccines
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"On average, between 1 in 2,000 and 1 in 3,000 children that receive these vaccines will be hospitalized in the short term with vaccine-caused damage."
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
THIP MediaHealth & medicine
green tea extracts can be used to treat acne
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died of colon cancer, not COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
“It’s called the swine flu, right? And his own person, his chief of staff, said that he was — it was a disaster the way they ran it, a much less lethal problem, but a disaster the way they ran it, a total catastrophe. It was so bad, it was so bad.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Wisconsin is second to last in the Midwest in our vaccination rate and the governor says he’s ‘satisfied.’”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
فکتنامهHealth & medicine
ادعاهای مطرح شده در مستند جنجالی پلندمیک (Plandemic) درباره کرونا
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"If all goes 'well' it'll become federal law to get the (COVID-19) vaccine."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says his policy is that “health insurance should always cover preexisting conditions. For anyone. Period.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Johns Hopkins" study finds "lockdowns" had "little to no" impact on COVID-19 deaths.
Publisher’s rating: Experts: Paper Is Faulty
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“If you have had a flu shot in the last 3-5 years, you will probably test positive” for COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire