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Four people “tested positive” after a Texas pool was “infected with AIDS.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, "says he isn't vaccinated."
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Photo claiming to show Raila Odinga mingling freely with family and friends despite testing COVID-19 positive
Publisher’s rating: False.
A photo shows a large crowd in Berlin protesting the “covid hoax.”
Publisher’s rating: False
A video shows “the COVID-19 vaccine when it hits your blood.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
"If we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America — as the nurses can tell you — every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient — every one."
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
Said "stop getting mammograms" because thermography "is a safer way to test for breast cancer!"
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
"You’re in danger” because the American Red Cross doesn’t label blood donations from donors vaccinated against COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: False
انتقال ویروس کرونا؛ توصیههای سازمان بهداشت جهانی
Publisher’s rating: توصیههای سازمان بهداشت جهانی در زمینه انتشار ویروس
"CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“WHO now saying you do not need to wear a mask.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Las vacunas contra la COVID-19 han causado la muerte de 17 millones de personas
Publisher’s rating: Falso. No hay evidencia científica que respalde la afirmación de que las vacunas COVID-19 han causado 17 millones de muertes. Se trata de una afirmación incorrecta de un análisis muy defectuoso que no tuvo en cuenta las muertes por COVID-19.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “continuously questioned the vaccine during the campaign” but now “they support vaccine cards and forced vaccinations.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
COVID-19’s “contagion probability” between two people is 70% if the carrier is not masked, 5% if the carrier is masked, and 1.5% if both parties are.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
It was not former President Donald Trump who promoted the COVID-19 vaccine, but a “lookalike.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
اخبار مربوط به واکسن کووید ۱۹ آکسفورد/آسترازنکا
Publisher’s rating: آخرین اطلاعات درباره اخبار واکسن کووید ۱۹ آکسفورد/آسترازنکا
"New data shows that death is proportional to dose" for COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: False