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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

PesaCheckHealth & medicine

Bars to close as kenya goes into lockdown again

Publisher’s rating: False.

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the coronavirus is “a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video shows TV personalities promoting a diabetes cure.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

An optional microchip for COVID-19 vaccines “would give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated” and “tracks the location of the patient.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Facebook postHealth & medicine

Says six eradicated diseases such as whooping cough and the bubonic plague are making a comeback "thanks to refugees and illegal immigrants."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A Delta Air Lines pilot died in flight shortly after getting the COVID-19 vaccine and "there's a lot of risk right now" for air travel.

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“When John F. Kennedy was president, 6% of American kids had a chronic health condition. Today it is 60%."

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.”

Publisher’s rating: True

Washington PostHealth & medicine

"I will ALWAYS PROTECT PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS,ALWAYS!!!"

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"New government-funded 'food pyramid' says Lucky Charms are healthier than steak."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"CDC data show mass vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine has had no measurable impact on COVID-19 mortality in the U.S."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Video suggests COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for breast cancer deaths in women under age 45 rising from 26,000 in 2021 to 297,000 in 2023.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“NIH COVID Treatment Guidelines Approve Ivermectin”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine “dumps millions” of dangerous “spike proteins right into your body.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“In Italy, they have thrown their money on the streets. A clear message to the whole world that money is not enough when health is in danger.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

El coronavirus es un exosoma

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The World Health Organization said there is "a possible causal relationship" between COVID-19 vaccines and multiple sclerosis.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“I find it incomprehensible that the president would do something as inane as calling [the novel coronavirus] a hoax, which he did [Friday] night in South Carolina.”

Publisher’s rating: Lacks Context

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says pre-cut onion used to cook the following day "becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire