Health & medicine fact checks

The Biden administration “is bringing amendments that would propose that all nations of the Earth cede their sovereignty over national health care decisions to the WHO.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Dr. Anthony Fauci has never taken care of patients.

Publisher’s rating: False

“An Hour After Joe Biden Is Sworn In, WHO Admits Their Testing Grossly Overstates Individuals Testing Positive for COVID."

Publisher’s rating: False

“Gavin Newsom está tumbado en el hospital con el síndrome de Guillain-Barré como resultado de una reacción adversa a su dosis de refuerzo”.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

Nos engañan con las muertes por coronavirus usando imágenes con croma editadas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

"The Lancet peer-reviewed study confirms vaccine efficacy, not as 95% stated by the vaccine companies, but as: AstraZeneca 1.3%; Moderna 1.2%; J&J 1.2%; Pfizer 0.84%."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

در ماه‌های اخیر حدود هزار تخت به تخت‌های آی سی یو کشور اضافه شده است.

Publisher’s rating: غیرقابل اثبات

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Related research addresses whether ivermectin can treat COVID-19, but the excerpts do not include the original PolitiFact review or its investigation. One pharmaceutical-engineering article examines whether laboratory findings could translate into effective treatment in people. It reports that modeling found ivermectin unlikely to work at clinically relevant doses: even a high-dose regimen used in a trial would not reach the laboratory concentration associated with antiviral activity in the models described. A separate medical-information article describes the evidence standard as well-designed trials in people comparing outcomes between treated and untreated groups. Its excerpt says results from trials of ivermectin for viral illnesses, including COVID-19, have not established effectiveness. These sources therefore do not support the claim that ivermectin is an effective COVID-19 treatment. The excerpts provide only limited details about the clinical trials, so they do not establish what each trial tested or its specific outcomes.

"It’s not unusual for hospitals to sit at max or near max capacity on any given day."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

If the coronavirus gets in your mouth, "drinking water or other liquids will WASH them down through your esophagus and into the stomach. Once there in tummy ... your stomach ACID will kill all the virus."

Publisher’s rating: False

"We’ve tested more than every country combined," referring to COVID-19 diagnostic testing.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says for otherwise healthy people “experiencing mild to moderate respiratory symptoms with or without a COVID-19 diagnosis … only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high,” but not over 103 or 104 degrees.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Childhood chronic illnesses have risen from “something like 12%” before 1986's vaccine protection law to "54% now."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Columbia University "pointed out that if [Trump] had listened to me and others and acted just one week earlier to deal with this virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead.”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

Says Dr. Anthony Fauci planned the AIDS epidemic.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Abortion is available at any point of pregnancy and for any reason in Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

The New York Times reported on a conservative activist’s “superdiarrhea.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Says video of body bags being dumped in a ditch shows the “situation in Italy” due to the coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: False

Las pistolas para medir la temperatura matan neuronas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

“Infection rates in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.”

Publisher’s rating: True