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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Donald Trump tweeted in 2009 that he "would never let thousands of Americans die from a pandemic" if president.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The COVID-19 vaccines’ “spike protein is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The COVID vaccine “has been proven to have negative efficacy.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Claimed he moved decisively when confronted with a disturbing HIV outbreak in a rural Indiana county when he was governor of the state.
Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“Yesterday and today, he was not on oxygen," referring to President Trump's treatment for COVID-19.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Fully vaccinated Australians in hospital for COVID-19 surpass unvaccinated”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Five JetBlue pilots died from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostHealth & medicine
"When you talk about the peer-reviewed studies of masks, there was one done in Denmark, showed that it didn’t work. When you look at all of Sweden — 1.8 million children have not been wearing masks for the last two years, they’ve had zero covid deaths."
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
La gripe mata más que el coronavirus y la COVID-19 se ha saltado Suecia
Publisher’s rating: Falso
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"If I didn’t do that," referring to early travel restrictions on China, "we would’ve had hundreds of thousands more people dying" in the United States.
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The number of coronavirus deaths is “almost nothing.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Health professionals are being “urged” to call vaginas “bonus holes” to avoid offending transgender or nonbinary patients.
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Estos son los test otorgados por el Gobierno central a las CCAA y los test finalmente efectuados
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“The CDC is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False