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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “officially recommends administering ivermectin as presumptive therapy (giving medication without a diagnosis) to refugees.”
Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story
"Students must take Flu, HPV AND COVID19 vaccine to attend school" under new legislation in Colorado.
Publisher’s rating: False
The COVID-19 vaccines contain “HIV lipid wrappers.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
"A Lansing protester just announced his virus test results were positive."
Publisher’s rating: No public evidence to suggest that a protester in Lansing protested against coronavirus stay-at-home orders and then came down with COVID-19.
President Joe Biden was “rushed to hospital unexpectedly.”
Publisher’s rating: False
El laboratorio chino de Wuhan pertenece a la empresa Glaxo, que posee Pfizer.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Drinking coconut oil will cause cancer to “disappear”
Publisher’s rating: False
A study that found sunbathing can increase the risk of heart disease is a cover-up for the “side-effects of the vax.”
Publisher’s rating: False
“Probably 60% or 70%” of West Virginia University students were already infected by the coronavirus before coming to campus this year.
Publisher’s rating: No one knows for sure
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome and “stroke season” didn’t exist before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publisher’s rating: False
The Gates Foundation "has the patent for this coronavirus."
Publisher’s rating: False
“Children don’t seem to be getting this virus”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
"OMS ayer: 'paren de darle la vac a los niños inmediatamente'”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
"I set a big goal of administering 100 million shots in the first 100 days. With the progress we’re making I believe we’ll not only reach that, we’ll break it."
Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts
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"[A] higher number of COVID-19 vaccine doses received increases the risk of infection with COVID-19," according to a Cleveland Clinic study.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
"The Biden administration plan would kill 5,248 children via Pfizer mRNA shots in order to save 45 children from dying of coronavirus."
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
Dr. Oz endorsed gummies to “clean blood vessels” and treat high blood pressure.
Publisher’s rating: False