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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

The existence of a canine coronavirus vaccine casts doubt on statements that there isn’t one for humans.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says the defense secretary texted all active military personnel saying they needed to get vaccinated by the following morning or “be court martialed.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The COVID-19 future vaccine will come with the ID — a mark. The ID tells everyone you are free of COVID.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

COVID-19 vaccines caused a 40% increase in deaths identified by a life insurance company.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“sooooo Red Cross won’t use vaxxed blood ??"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Dems Pass Bill to Vaccinate Children Without Parental Knowledge, Consent.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Leaked Hospital Email Reveals Explosion of Stillbirths Following COVID Vaccine Rollout"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Deaths of four alternative medicine doctors show they are being targeted for their ideas.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Gov. Newsom developed "Guillain Barre syndrome as a result of an adverse reaction to his booster shot.”

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Take a few sips of water every 15 minutes at least ... drinking water or other liquids will wash" the coronavirus "down through your throat and into the stomach. Once there, your stomach acid will kill all the virus."

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: Who, really... can ever know?

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Las pruebas PCR causan daño en la barrera hematoencefálica y crean una entrada directa al cerebro para cualquier infección

Publisher’s rating: Falso

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

ادعای یک پزشک در بی‌فایده بودن ماسک در مقابل ویروس کرونا

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“La variante delta es una noticia falsa”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Black Lives Matter protesters and Mexicans have contributed to the rise of coronavirus cases in the U.S.

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Symptoms of the omicron variant include "Heart failure, Arrhythmia, Heart inflammation, Blood clots, Strokes, Peripheral Nerve Damage, Multi Organ Failure," and are actually caused by COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“More contraception availability increases abortion demand."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Por supuesto, la toxicidad del COVID-ómicron es 5 veces mayor que la de la variante delta y la tasa de mortalidad también es mayor que la de delta".

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Florida surgeon general recommends men ages 18 to 39 not get an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, based on an analysis that found “an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death ... within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.”

Publisher’s rating: Analysis Is Flawed