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Health & medicine fact checks
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PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"DMX received COVID vaccine days before heart attack."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid."
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Atrazine in the water supply is contributing to "sexual dysphoria" in kids.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“MRNA vaccines are being injected into our food supply.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Hand "sanitizer will do nothing for the coronavirus."
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Adriana Lastra tuitea que España se levantará de la pandemia y el país renacerá de las cenizas como el gato félix
Publisher’s rating: Falso
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
The current monkeypox outbreak is a result of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Disturbing Pfizer ad tells kids they’ll get superpowers from COVID jab.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
For mitigating COVID-19 spread, “masks (are) the number one way to do so."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video shows Elon Musk endorsing “an anti-aging remedy.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
"I was the person who saved preexisting Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now....I will always protect your Pre-Existing Conditions, the Dems will not!”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Johns Hopkins University confirms: You can be vaccinated with a PCR test, even without knowing”
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Not one politician has died from [COVID-19], lost their job, or had their business looted."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True