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Health & medicine fact checks
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Texas has the highest COVID positivity rate and case count in the nation."
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
If you have “natural immunity,” getting vaccinated against COVID-19 “is more likely to harm you severely.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
Trump “shut down 37 of 47 global anti-pandemic programs.”
Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
George Floyd and COVID-19 “never existed.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
COVID-19 treatment "remdesivir is proven to kill lives."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says Wisconsin has not had a spike in coronavirus cases that was “statistically significant related to the fact that they had voting.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"Hundreds of thousands of vials (of antibody drug) are being sent to the hospitals all over the country."
Publisher’s rating: No evidence of this
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Nobody is found dead of corona in their homes.. They all die at the hospital.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
“There was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try and figure it out. And so in many ways, we’re starting from scratch on something that’s been raging for almost an entire year!”
Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
An audio message lists five ways people can prevent the novel coronavirus.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Los videos de imanes pegados a los brazos demuestran que las vacunas COVID-19 contienen microchips.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“CDC admits it faked 99% of COVID deaths to scare public into taking vaccine.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The CDC recommends that only people with COVID-19 symptoms should wear masks.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
La vacuna contra COVID-19 "contiene óxido de grafeno" y para desintoxicarte toma "dióxido de cloro".
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
COVID-19 “has killed less people than the damn flu.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“DOCUMENTOS DE LA FDA: VACUNA ARNm CAUSA MUERTE + 21 EFECTOS SECUNDARIOS”.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says a recent study found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It’s two paragraphs."
Publisher’s rating: False