Health & medicine fact checks

“Stop getting mammograms immediately as they are outdated and dangerous!” Thermography “is a safer way to test for breast cancer!”

Publisher’s rating: False

Says a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years.

Publisher’s rating: False

“The CDC has already said over 98,000 people had non-COVID related deaths because of hospitals that were closed down for non-essential services."

Publisher’s rating: C

"The [COVID-19] vaccine killed Marvin Hagler."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

Says wearing masks has been “proven ineffective.”

Publisher’s rating: False

"George Soros owns the WuXi PHARMA LAB located in Wuhan, China where COVID-19 was developed and conveniently Broke Out."

Publisher’s rating: False

“Texas ranks 3rd highest among states for the number of people who have recovered from” the coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

“The (COVID-19) cases are going up, but it's because the testing is going up.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Says only certain face masks are effective and others, such as cloth masks, are not.

Publisher’s rating: False

Viral post shows same picture with different headlines on COVID-19 stories, asking, "That's weird the exact same people who visited the beach in Florida are now at the beaches in California?"

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

“Alkaline foods” can heal the body of cancer.

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting describes the claim as part of Robert O. Young’s pH Miracle approach: Young said illnesses stem from excessive acidity and could be cured with an alkaline diet. The report specifically says he claimed to heal serious ailments including cancer, and notes that the approach included green vegetables, low-sugar foods and supplements intended to alter the body’s acidity or alkalinity. That is directly relevant to the claim that alkaline foods can heal cancer, though the excerpt does not present a cancer trial or a detailed scientific review.

Country singer Jake Flint died unexpectedly on Nov. 27 because of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

"If you like your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you have private insurance, you can keep it."

Publisher’s rating: Tough promise to keep

“Biden announces Medicare stimulus that provides free dental work to all Seniors who need it! Crowns and implants included.”

Publisher’s rating: False

El director general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud "dice que ya no es emergencia sanitaria la viruela del mono" en 2024.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False

Aluminum “is in the vaccine” and will hurt the brain.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says Wisconsin’s coronavirus cases will peak on April 26, 2020

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

Florida's coronavirus outbreak "is mostly tied to New York City travel into the three Southern Florida (counties)."

Publisher’s rating: Unproven with state data

Claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was saying in late February of the coronavirus: “This is no problem. This is going to blow — this is going to blow over.”

Publisher’s rating: False