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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

“CDC: Mascarillas no previenen el COVID-19, estudio encuentra mascarillas tienen efecto insignificante en los casos de coronavirus”

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Nuevo estudio israelí establece que las personas plenamente vacunadas corren un ‘riesgo mayor de hospitalización’ y tienen 13 VECES MÁS PROBABILIDADES de contraer Covid-19 que aquellos que se han recuperado y tienen inmunidad natural”.

Publisher’s rating: no toda la historia

MyGoPenHealth & medicine

網傳影片：日本研發的視力恢復訓練影片，看完眼睛真的舒服多了

Publisher’s rating: 不實

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“To children and the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults and the vast majority of teachers, (the coronavirus) poses virtually zero threat."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

There is a "Globalist Plan to Launch #DiseaseX to Install World Government."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Aren’t [vaccines] supposed to protect the vulnerable people from disease? [Vaccines] can actually spread disease. Maybe’ you’ve heard of it, it’s known as shedding."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"In a very real sense, (Oklahoma has) flattened the curve. ... The number of cases in Oklahoma — it's declined precipitously."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The CDC may have to stop calling COVID-19 an ‘epidemic’ due to a remarkably low death rate.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“A European study has found COVID vaccines could be causing ‘long-term brain damage.’”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The flu didn't kill any Americans this year.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“WHO Director-General: The vaccines are being used to kill children.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Ron DeSantis let "millions of COVID-19 tests expire."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact On Coronavirus Numbers"

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Exempt from Biden's vaccine mandates: Congress/legislative branch, Congressional staff, Judicial branch, White House staff, CDC employees, FDA employees, USPS employees, NIAID employees, Pfizer employees, Moderna employees, Illegal aliens."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says 86% of COVID-19 cases in Israel in July were in fully vaccinated individuals.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“They put” monkeypox in the water in Atlanta.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the Vatican reports that Pope Francis tested negative for the coronavirus before a second test came back positive.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Wearing masks for the coronavirus “decreases oxygen intake, increases toxin inhalation, shuts down immune system, increases virus risk, scientifically inaccurate, effectiveness not studied.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Only Reuters” reported that the doctor who detected the omicron variant said its symptoms are “very mild.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Vaccines send the immune system into “perpetual overdrive” by instructing cells to keep “making the protein of an invader, nonstop, forever and ever.”

Publisher’s rating: False