Q: Is one day isolation sufficient to stop forward transmission of COVID-19? A: People with COVID-19 could potentially transmit it to others well beyond a day after developing symptoms or testing positive. New guidance from the CDC advises pe
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Health Feedback→ CDC analysis of RSV vaccines data showed vaccines are safe, not associated with excess deaths, contrary to claim by Children’s Health Defense
REVIEW In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved several treatments to protect young children and older adults from infections with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). In May of that year, the agency approved two RSV vaccines
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Cambios en la directriz de los CDC para COVID-19 no significa que siempre haya sido como la gripe
“Al CDC sólo le tomó 4 AÑOS estar de acuerdo con ‘teóricos de la conspiración’ que dijeron en 2020 que: COVID es más o menos como la GRIPE”.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Some claim vindication after CDC change on COVID-19 guidance. Here’s why they’re wrong.
“The CDC officially agrees with ‘conspiracy theorists’ from 2020” who wanted to treat COVID-19 like the flu.
FactCheck.org→ CDC, Experts Say Fluoridated Water Is Safe, Contrary to RFK Jr.’s Warnings
The mineral fluoride, at the right dose, has been shown to reduce the risk of tooth decay. Based on studies demonstrating this in children drinking naturally fluoride-containing water, individual cities in the U.S. began to add fluoride
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Detect ‘Alarming Viral Levels’ Of COVID-19 In US Water Supply — It Was In Wastewater
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detect "alarming viral levels" of COVID-19 in the U.S. water supply? No, that's not true: The CDC told Lead Stories that there's no evidence to suggest that people can get the virus throu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest CDC Official Karen Hacker
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps place Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Dr. Karen Hacker under arrest for committing "treason, abuse of office, and defrauding the country"? No, that's not true: A Pentago
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines Did NOT Kill CDC Official Aaron Aranas — It’s A Made-Up Story
Did U.S. Marines "kill" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Managing Officer" Aaron Aranas by fatally shooting him on November 24, 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer confirmed to Lead Stories that this claim is fal
Health Feedback→ No evidence COVID-19 vaccines caused rise in U.S. infant mortality for 2022 reported by the CDC, contrary to implication in Facebook meme
REVIEW Introduction The safety of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women and their unborn children has been a recurring subject of misinformation, as Health Feedback documented. In a recent illustration of this, a post circulated on social media in No
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Misinterpretation of CDC COVID-19 data leads to misinformation about vaccines
“CDC admits it faked 99% of COVID deaths to scare public into taking vaccine.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Report 99% Of COVID Deaths Weren’t Caused By COVID — Claim Abuses A Headline Gaffe
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that 99 percent of "Covid deaths" were not primarily caused by the virus? No, that's not true: The claim was propagated by an incorrect headline written by the Daily Mail, wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Confirm 143,233% Increase in ‘Turbo-Cancers’ Due to ‘mRNA Jabs’
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm a "143,233% increase in turbo-cancers due to mRNA jabs," including COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: A CDC spokesperson confirmed to Lead Stories that "There is no evi
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media posts misrepresent CDC data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in teens
CLAIM: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that COVID-19 vaccines will not prevent any deaths among teenagers and lead to 100,000 to 200,000 severe side effects.
Health Feedback→ CDC data didn’t show an increased risk of hospitalization in people vaccinated against COVID-19, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
REVIEW Casting doubt on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines has been a recurring theme of misinformation since the vaccination rollout in December 2020. Health Feedback has covered this subject in several previous reviews, explaining why claims t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Study Did NOT Confirm ‘COVID Jab Lowers Male Life Expectancy By 24 Years’
Did a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that men who receive COVID-19 vaccines "will tragically suffer a 24-year loss in their life expectancy"? No, that's not true: Dr. Nabin Shrestha, an inf
PolitiFact→ Why the CDC has recommended new COVID-19 boosters for all
A Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention panel recommended Americans 6 months old and older get the latest COVID-19 booster. A day earlier, the Food and Drug Administration OK'd the booster, calling it safe and effective at protecting against circ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Report Does NOT Link Developmental Disabilities In Children With 2019-21 Pandemic Masking
Did a July 2023 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conclude that children are being harmed by masks, resulting in a 17 percent rise in developmental disabilities in children 3-17? No, that's not true: A misleading
PolitiFact→ CDC faces conundrum over recommending new COVID-19 booster for all
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will decide whether to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters. If the committee doesn’t recommend the shots, insurance companies wouldn’t have to pay for them, which could leave economically disadvantaged
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Remove COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports From Its Website
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remove COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports from its website? No, that's not true: The national public health agency did not remove COVID vaccine adverse event reports from its we
Health Feedback→ Posts misrepresent CDC risk assessment of new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86; COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of infection
REVIEW The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a document on 23 August 2023 summarizing what was known at the time about a new SARS-CoV-2 variant called BA.2.86. In the document, the CDC reported that “BA.2.86 may be mo
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ CDC data does not show that 99% of COVID-19 deaths were due to other causes
CLAIM: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 99% of deaths attributed to COVID-19 were actually caused by something else.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are likelier to get the new COVID-19 variant than unvaccinated
“CDC says new COVID variant is more contagious among vaccinated people than those unvaccinated.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more at risk of a new COVID variant than the unvaccinated
CLAIM: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a new COVID-19 variant is more contagious among vaccinated people than those who are unvaccinated.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Secret CDC Report’ Shows Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children ‘Died Suddenly’ Following Rollout Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Does a "secret CDC report" show hundreds of thousands of children "died suddenly" in the United States following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? No, that's not true: The author or authors of the article making the claims did not find any su
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, the CDC didn’t issue a travel advisory for Florida over an increase in leprosy cases
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ What is chestfeeding? How it relates to trans parents and what the CDC says
Conservative news outlets and social media users have denounced the CDC’s use of the gender-neutral term “chestfeeding” in the breastfeeding section of the agency’s website. It wasn’t a new update, but here’s what it means.
Health Feedback→ CDC data didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of hospitalization, contrary to claim by The Epoch Times
REVIEW The narrative that COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of getting sick with COVID-19 has resurfaced many times since the start of the vaccination campaign in late 2020. Health Feedback explained previously on multiple occasions that claims fe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Say ‘AIDS-Associated Diseases And Cancers Increased 338x Since Rollout Of The COVID Vaccine’
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that AIDS-associated diseases and cancers have increased by 338 times since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: The CDC says there are no indications that
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Panfleto de ‘pandemia zombie’ de los CDC fue una campaña ficticia de preparación, no un evento real
Tropas estadounidenses se preparan para “una pandemia zombies”.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Marines didn’t arrest a CDC official. Claim comes from a site known for misinformation
U.S. Marine Corps arrested a CDC official.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pentagon, CDC NOT Planning For Zombie Apocalypse — These Were Training Materials
Are the Pentagon and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) planning for a zombie apocalypse? No, that's not true: The Department of Defense created a fictitious scenario for a training program for the U.S. Strategic Co
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The zombie apocalypse isn't coming. Defense Department and CDC plans were for a mock catastrophe
A Pentagon plan and a CDC poster proves that a “zombie apocalypse” is coming.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Suppress Results Of Study On Safety Of Hepatitis B Vaccine In Infants — Results Available For Decades
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suppress the results of a study that purportedly showed an increased risk of neurodevelopmental delays in newborns who were given a Hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of lif
Washington Post→ CDC news release magnified spike in sexual violence against girls
The agency acknowledged to The Fact Checker that it rounded figures to give a misleading presentation.
PolitiFact→ Did Ohio train derailment cause CDC to update its vinyl chloride toxicology info? No
An update of vinyl chloride’s toxicological profile was released Feb. 9, days after the Ohio train derailment. An expert told PolitiFact the update had been in progress for many months before the derailment and described the timing of the update as
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Raise ‘Lethality’ Bar For Vinyl Chloride Just Before Ohio Derailment
Did the Centers for Disease Control change the level of exposure considered lethal for vinyl chloride from 100 parts per million to 100,000 parts per million shortly before the February 3, 2023 train derailment and vinyl chloride spill ne
FactCheck.org→ Posts Falsely Claim CDC Official Admitted COVID-19 Vaccines Cause ‘Debilitating Illnesses’
SciCheck Digest Health problems that are reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System after vaccination are not necessarily caused by a vaccine. Yet social media posts distorted a comment from a Centers for Disease Control and P
Health Feedback→ New CDC data don’t confirm that the Pfizer bivalent booster shot increases the risk of ischemic strokes
REVIEW On 13 January 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement explaining that one of their pharmacosurveillance systems called Vaccine Safety Database
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did a CDC Deputy Director Say the COVID Vaccines Cause Illnesses?
The Center for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Claims are circulating online that Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said that th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC’s Shimabukuro Did NOT Admit COVID Vaccines Are Causing ‘Debilitating Illnesses’
Did Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the Immunization Safety Office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), admit COVID-19 vaccines are causing "debilitating illnesses"? No, that's not true: In the context of talking abou