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A study from the CDC and the WHO “proves face masks do not prevent the spread of a virus.”
Publisher’s rating: False
If you donate blood, “they HAVE to test you” for coronavirus.
Publisher’s rating: False
Social media accounts are posting an outdated video of Dr. Anthony Fauci saying, "There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask."
Publisher’s rating: Out of Context
Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab
Publisher’s rating: False
“Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety.”
Publisher’s rating: True
“The leading cause of death among children is a firearm.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
Seniors around the world who died from COVID vaccine are being improperly listed as “natural causes.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Changing public health recommendations and scientific findings is proof that lawmakers and public health officials have been lying about the pandemic.
Publisher’s rating: Misunderstanding of scientific process
COVID-19 vaccines have a microchip that "tracks the location of the patient."
Publisher’s rating: False
The review addresses a social-media video claiming that a microchip in COVID-19 vaccine vials tracks the patient’s location. It traces the assertion to an interview with Jay Walker, an executive at ApiJect, whose company had a federal contract to increase production of prefilled syringes. The review says the video misrepresented Walker’s explanation of an optional chip for those syringes. According to the review, the chip was an RFID tag attached to the end of the plastic vial, not a device injected into a person. Walker described it as holding a unique serial number for each dose, to help check that a dose was not counterfeit or expired. The article quotes him clarifying that the chip referred only to the dose and held no patient information. The review also reports ApiJect spokesman Steven Hofman’s explanation that the tag could not collect personal information and was incapable of tracking individuals. The review notes a further qualification omitted from the video: ApiJect’s syringes were not being used for the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines discussed in the article. Its evidence therefore concerns the specific video and the proposed syringe-chip system it depicted, rather than showing that vaccine vials contained patient-tracking chips.
Betty White died after getting a COVID-19 booster shot and she was the sister of former first lady Barbara Bush.
Publisher’s rating: False
“Hailey Bieber had a blood clot in her brain. Justin Bieber now has Ramsey Hunt Syndrome." Claims both conditions “have been linked” to COVID-19 vaccination.
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
“Directora de CDC admite que hospitales exageraron conteo de casos COVID, tal como Gateway Pundit y Donald Trump reportaron en agosto”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
"We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19."
Publisher’s rating: False
The new coronavirus is the “least deadly virus” and has a death rate lower than the 2009 H1N1 outbreak.
Publisher’s rating: False
"More Americans are uninsured today than when (President Donald) Trump took office."
Publisher’s rating: True
“Nobody’s health is at risk right now” from PFAS contamination, as long as they are receiving bottled drinking water
Publisher’s rating: False
“Jefe de investigación de Pfizer: Vacuna COVID es esterilidad femenina”
Publisher’s rating: Falso