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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

A funeral home used a truck to advertise the message "Don't get vaccinated."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

A nurse who fainted after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine died from the vaccination.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Boatos.orgHealth & medicine

Fique atento com a nova cepa do Covid . Ataca o fígado , garganta e dor de cabeça

Publisher’s rating: Falso

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

درستی‌سنجی نامه «۲۵۰۰ پزشک» در دفاع از ممنوعیت «واکسن آمریکایی»

Publisher’s rating: شاخ‌دار

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Why are yall wearing a mask? Even the box is saying it doesn't protect against covid19."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“The blood test for coronavirus costs $3,200.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines contain a deadly parasite.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

The CDC in mid-May quietly changed its international travel recommendations to require fully vaccinated people to test negative for COVID-19 before flying to the United States.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

Fact-checking a video that claims New York City hospitals are "murdering" COVID-19 patients.

Publisher’s rating: Three claims refuted.

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Suggested that vaccines might cause autism because “there’s not been a direct study on each individual vaccine.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

فکت‌نامهHealth & medicine

فوتی‌های کرونا در کربلا و نجف پس از اجتماع «۱۴ میلیونی» اربعین امسال «تقریبا صفر» بوده است.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

A study showed “you were more likely to suffer a serious adverse event from taking the vaccine — hospitalization, disability, life-changing event— than you were to be hospitalized with COVID."

Publisher’s rating: Study Is Flawed

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

"One in eight American adults, or 12.7 percent of the U.S population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“Corona is so bad, this guy died twice!”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Texas has the highest COVID positivity rate and case count in the nation."

Publisher’s rating: Not Per CDC Data

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

"Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia ... to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies."

Publisher’s rating: Didn't Fund That Project

PolitiFactHealth & medicine

“New Israeli study finds fully vaccinated people are at ‘greater risk of hospitalization’ and 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "just came out & said they made another ‘mistake’" in Florida. "And they’ve also been counting Pneumonia & Flu as Covid– dropping their [number] from approx 90,000 to 11,000."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine

Cinco líderes mundiales fueron asesinados o murieron porque "se opusieron a la vacunación de los ciudadanos de sus países."

Publisher’s rating: No hay pruebas