Health & medicine fact checks

“Per the CDC, there are nearly twice as many vaccine-related deaths so far in 2021 (1,755) than all the vaccine deaths this past decade (994).”

Publisher’s rating: False

Florida tiene la “menor tasa de casos de Covid en el país sin tener que imponer mandatos ni aislamientos comunistas.”

Publisher’s rating: no toda la historia

Says Johns Hopkins virologist "James Kelly" said the COVID-19 vaccine “discriminates, divides, and judges society as it is.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“We're now at 108.1% of the vaccines received that we've put in arms, meaning that we've got more vaccines out of the vials and absolutely not throwing a single one away.”

Publisher’s rating: Thanks to "extra" doses in vial

5 world leaders were killed or died because they “opposed vaccination of the citizens of their countries.”

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

“US hospitals caught injecting experimental Ebola vaccine that sheds!”

Publisher’s rating: False

Margaret Keenan, the first recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K., is a "crisis actor" named Liz Scott.

Publisher’s rating: False

Ivermectin “has been very effective against COVID-19 and shown to outperform at least 10 other drugs, including Paxlovid.”

Publisher’s rating: False

"Pfeizer CEO refuses [COVID-19 vaccine]"

Publisher’s rating: False

The review examines a Facebook video that claimed the Pfizer CEO “refuses” to get a COVID-19 vaccine. It identifies the CEO as Albert Bourla and says the video used a December CNBC interview in which he explained that he was not taking a dose ahead of people prioritized for vaccination. The review reports that Bourla said he would take the vaccine when eligible and had since received his first dose. That chronology is central to the review’s conclusion: Bourla’s earlier explanation for waiting was not a refusal, and his later vaccination contradicted the video’s claim. The review also notes that the video included his statement about not wanting to “cut[] the line,” even though comments suggest viewers may have focused on its written claim instead. The review separately addresses a suggestion in the same video that Anthony Fauci was hesitant to get a COVID-19 test. It explains that the clip came from a March 15, 2020 interview about testing, months before the first COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization. It also reports that Fauci received a vaccine on Dec. 22. These are separate claims in the video; the evidence about Fauci’s test does not establish Bourla’s position, which the review assesses using Bourla’s own statements and vaccination history.

“Last year alone, 10 million fell ill from TB and 1.5 million died. ... Why don’t we wear masks for TB?”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

The military has recorded a “500% increase in HIV since the COVID vaccine rollout."

Publisher’s rating: False

“It is the vaccinated, NOT the unvaccinated, spreading mutant variants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Related research on COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 transmission does not support the categorical claim that vaccinated people, rather than unvaccinated people, spread variants. It describes vaccine effects on transmission as varying by variant and says studies of the Alpha variant found that multiple vaccines reduced infection and onward transmission. It also notes that vaccinated people can still acquire SARS-CoV-2, so vaccination does not eliminate the possibility of transmission.

“Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.”

Publisher’s rating: True

Chloroquine has "gone through the approval process; it's been approved. And [the FDA] took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

"This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid."

Publisher’s rating: False

The COVID-19 vaccines and side effects from them can “shed” to affect unvaccinated people.

Publisher’s rating: Wrong and biologically impossible

Increases in respiratory syncytial virus in children are linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Publisher’s rating: False

“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“Bill Gates fights to keep vaccine ingredients secret.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, “I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False