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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

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Asked of Dr. Anthony Fauci, "Would you be willing to submit to Congress and the public a financial disclosure [form] that includes your past and current investments?"

Publisher’s rating: Fauci Files Annual Reports

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Said of his comments about injections of disinfectant: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen."

Publisher’s rating: You Be the Judge

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The COVID-19 vaccine “will make the common cold/flu extremely lethal.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

The White House plans to call for lockdowns due to the delta variant and is “aiming for late 2nd week of August, per WH official.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Photo that shows COVID-19 test swabs labeled positive and negative proves that the tests are fixed.

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Una prueba PCR mal hecha perfora el cerebro a una paciente

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Washington PostHealth & medicine

“He [President Donald Trump] did not move on making sure that we dealt with vaccinating the American public. We ended up losing over a million people dead — a million people.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

President Donald Trump “took fast action” in regard to testing for the novel coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"There’s a study out that people with lupus aren’t catching this horrible virus."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Polio stopped when they stopped dousing the population [with] DDT not some injection."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said: “Two doses of the vaccine offers very limited protection, if any.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Unvaccinated people “are making the vaccinated people sick and die, but the unvaccinated people are not dead or sick.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Bill Gates tweeted that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“If the vaccine came out tomorrow, how in the heck would we get it to people? There is no game plan.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Two patients at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, “are being looked at” for possible coronavirus infections.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Heart complications are one symptom “listed” for the omicron variant and are being “used to cover up effects” of COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says Emmanuel Macron said, “I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A viral video says that scientific studies support the claim that face masks don't mitigate the transmission of COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“One year ago, these were side effects that Pfizer knew about" that "can cause you to die in any number of truly horrific ways."

Publisher’s rating: False