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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

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A military Humvee labeled “COVID-19 quarantine team” was on Interstate 696 in Michigan.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Bill Gates Explains That The COVID Vaccine Will Use Experimental Technology And Permanently Alter Your DNA”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected by the virus.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Klaus Schwab “publicly admitted he is planning to implement China-style forced COVID lockdowns all over the world during the ‘next pandemic.’”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Joe Biden approved a “new card” that “gives free health insurance to Americans” who are 25 and older.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Racial comparisons on coronavirus statistics in Monroe County, N.Y., show that the impact on minorities is “basically on par, a little bit up, from the population numbers,” meaning that “we don’t see that disparity as much here.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A video shows Disney is opening pediatric transgender clinics.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

“Si la vacuna funciona, y nos aseguran rotundamente que funciona y nos castigan si cuestionamos lo bien que funciona, entonces ¿cómo pueden los no vacunados representar una amenaza para los vacunados?"

Publisher’s rating: Nosotros explicamos como

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"And there’s also other studies, you know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little — people that take this drug for malaria, which is very effective for malaria — that those countries have very little of this virus."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“21% of people are having serious adverse events from (the Moderna) vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Dr. Oz releases COPD gummies that help quit smoking, detox lungs and stop COPD.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“So now, if you’re vaccinated you’re more likely to be infected by the new COVID-19 variant?”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"CDC Director Finally Admits that COVID Cases were Over-Counted in Hospitals - Just as Gateway Pundit and Donald Trump Reported in August."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Worldwide data has confirmed the vaccinated are developing COVID vaccine-induced Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Pfizer’s and Moderna’s clinical trial data on the COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children are “extremely weak” and “inconclusive.”

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"Report finds increased risk of spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy” after correcting “major error” in CDC study.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Defended his late February statement that the U.S. had "contained" the virus, saying that the novel coronavirus "spread exponentially in ways that virtually no one could have predicted."

Publisher’s rating: There Were Warnings

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the Make-A-Wish Foundation will grant wishes only to fully vaccinated children.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

The nasal swab used to test for COVID-19 "IS DESIGNED TO STERILIZE AND CAUSE CANCER."

Publisher’s rating: False