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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

Says Daniel Radcliffe has the coronavirus.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PubmedHealth & medicine

Suplementacja peptydami kolagenowymi poprawia funkcjonowanie, ból oraz wyniki fizyczne i psychiczne u aktywnych dorosłych

Publisher’s rating: Prawda

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System shows that 5,946 people have died because of the” COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A 2010 TED Talk shows that Bill Gates has a plan to remove some of the world population through vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The number of pregnant women who have miscarried increased by “366% in just six weeks” as a result of their receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactStreamHealth & medicine

Publicaciones en Instagram sugieren que Bill Gates y George Soros usarán pruebas de COVID-19 para vacunar secretamente a personas que aún no han recibido las inyecciones.

Publisher’s rating: No hay pruebas

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Medical peer-reviewed literature shows" that "COVID vaccines are not safe"

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"If you die within 20 days of testing positive" for COVID-19 "(no matter what other factors were involved) You’ll be counted as a COVID death."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

COVID-19 vaccine “shedding” causes reproductive issues in unvaccinated people.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“What do you have to lose" from taking chloroquine for coronavirus?

Publisher’s rating: Glosses over multiple risks

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says "hydroxychloroquine is okay" for COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: False

PesaCheckHealth & medicine

"Kissing disease" in Kisii that "kills faster than Aids"

Publisher’s rating: False.

Maldita.esHealth & medicine

Fotos de reacciones cutáneas por las mascarillas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Says COVID-19 vaccinations are “a violation of the Nuremberg code."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Es un negocio tan grande que en 2004, agencias de EE. UU. en busca de mayor financiamiento cambiaron la definición de pandemia de ‘una infección que se propaga rápidamente y mata a mucha gente’ a ‘una infección que se propaga rápidamente’”.

Publisher’s rating: No hay evidencia

Dan GArdnerHealth & medicine

brain injury is a simple condition

Publisher’s rating: false

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

“Folic acid ... doesn’t do anything good."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Pregnant women getting the Tdap vaccine “voluntarily are quite literally the experiment.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False