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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

Deaths from vaccines have totaled 1,621 from Johnson & Johnson, 4,799 from Moderna, 13,039 from Pfizer and 73 from unknown vaccines. And this is an undercount because “only 1% of deaths are reported.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Small trials” to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the governors of Michigan, New York and Nevada “have issued orders banning the prescription of hydroxychloroquine to patients with COVID-19.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Eating grapefruit, “if you're on antidepressants,” can “cause a fatal overdose.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Más de 3.000 personas han fallecido luego de recibir vacunas contra el COVID-19, según el Sistema de Notificación de Reacciones Adversas a las Vacunas.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video shows Kamala Harris has a “drinking problem.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly. But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Medical Tyranny: CDC Announces All Travelers Must Wear TWO Masks, Threatens Arrest"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The United Kingdom banned COVID-19 booster vaccines for people under 50.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"U.S. deaths since 1/22 (2020): COVID-19: 27, flu, 4,700; abortion: 118,000."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave'"

Publisher’s rating: First wave not over for many

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Society is “choosing blood clots and heart problems over cold and flu symptoms, or even no symptoms at all.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“CDC officials admit more hospitalizations of young people from vaccine than from the actual COVID virus.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Dr. Anthony Fauci has not spoken or appeared publicly for several weeks.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The COVID-19 vaccine caused Ashton Kutcher to lose “vision, hearing and ability to walk.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the coronavirus can be slowed or stopped with the “immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world. Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"MMS (chlorine dioxide), can be very effective in both preventing and eradicating the coronavirus."

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Militares franceses aseguran que el Covid-19 es una guerra total contra la población mundial para esclavizarla, controlarla, esterilizarla y reducirla

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A study on the NIH website comes to a different conclusion than the CDC about the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading