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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

“Don’t forget Pfizer just admitted to using gain of function to create bio weapons”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Dr. Anthony Fauci is "pushing Remdesivir" as treatment for COVID-19. "It was invented by Fauci and Gates."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel Admits Company Produced 100,000 COVID-19 Doses in 2019 Before The Pandemic Started.

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

اعتراف «آسترازنکا» به عوارض مرگبار واکسن کرونا و لخته شدن خون

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Cases, numbers and deaths (of COVID-19) are going down all over the Country!”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostHealth & medicine

"According to the VAERS system, we are over 3,000 deaths of, after, within 30 days of taking the [coronavirus] vaccine."

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Masks have negative impacts on 68% of children.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Swabs and reagents are "so easy to get."

Publisher’s rating: Not the full story

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"It's been confirmed that the Pfizer” COVID-19 “vaccine isn't guaranteed after six months."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Bill Gates planned a smallpox-type outbreak.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"The Amish are a perfect example of a large group of people who are largely unvaccinated and there's no autism."

Publisher’s rating: False

Vera FilesHealth & medicine

Donation drive for baby with toxic shock syndrome whose parent, either a construction worker or a painter, asks for donations via GCash

Publisher’s rating: Fake

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Pfizer admits there’s no vaccine approved by FDA.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The government must have planned the coronavirus pandemic because the coronavirus relief bill had been introduced three years earlier.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & 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

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Todos los pacientes de COVID-19 ingresados recientemente en un hospital del condado de Palm Beach estaban vacunados.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Nurse passes out on live TV after taking vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

The CDC revealed that "over 75%" of all COVID-19 deaths "occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading