Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. A document the Department of Health and Human Services distributed to members of Congress to justify recent changes to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations misrepresented scientifi
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FactCheck.org→ Q&A on New COVID-19 Vaccine Policies
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In the past two weeks, U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce access to COVID-19 vaccines and r
PolitiFact→ X posts – No, Joe Biden didn’t get ‘turbo cancer’ from COVID-19 vaccines. There’s no such thing.
Former President Joe Biden’s cancer is a form of “turbo cancer” caused by mRNA vaccines.
FactCheck.org→ RFK Jr. Misleads About Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In recent interviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has minimized the risk COVID-19 poses to kids and exaggerated the risk of the vaccine, incorrectly cl
The Dispatch→ Claims That the FDA Has Approved Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 Are False
The drug is approved only for treating parasitic diseases.
Health Feedback→ Journalist Alex Berenson misrepresents German study on COVID-19 mRNA vaccination
REVIEW At the end of March 2025, journalist Alex Berenson published a Substack post claiming that a German study showed COVID-19 mRNA vaccines changed “a crucial part of the macrophage chromosome called the histone” and that these changes are
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE FDA Approved Ivermectin as COVID-19 Treatment in April 2025
Did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 in April 2025? No, that's not true: We found no mention of any such approval on the website of the FDA or Department of Health and Human Services, or
Health Feedback→ Rising cancers in young adults preceded pandemic, unrelated to COVID-19 or vaccines, contrary to Patrick Soon-Shiong’s claims in Tucker Carlson interview
REVIEW While myths and falsehoods about diseases and treatments aren’t new, the COVID-19 pandemic represented a turning point in the landscape of health misinformation. The uncertainty that accompanied the pandemic, combined with the reach of soci
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Cleveland Clinic didn’t say millions of people with COVID-19 vaccines will die within 5 years
Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’”
Health Feedback→ German study showed that COVID-19 and flu caused deaths in Frankfurt during the pandemic, didn’t evaluate vaccination
REVIEW In March 2025, viral social media posts shared a screenshot of an article’s headline claiming “Germany Confirms mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Killed More People Than Covid”. One example posted on Facebook accumulated more than 200
Full Fact→ The Covid-19 virus does exist
A post on Instagram features a woman making incorrect claims about the existence of Covid-19.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Michelle Trachtenberg ‘Died Suddenly’ Because Of COVID-19 Vaccination
Did actress Michelle Trachtenberg "Die Suddenly" at the age of 39 because of the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: Social media posts spreading the speculation offered no supporting evidence. As of February 26, 2025, no investigating
Health Feedback→ New study contained methodological limitations and failed to show that COVID-19 vaccines increase disease burden, despite claims by Patrick Flynn
REVIEW In a Facebook post from February 2025, chiropractor Patrick Flynn claimed that people vaccinated against COVID-19 were “sicker” than those who were unvaccinated. He cited a December 2024 study by Harald Walach and Rainer Klement as eviden
FactCheck.org→ Trump Executive Order Targets COVID-19 Vaccines No Longer Required for Most U.S. Students
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President Donald Trump this month issued an executive order prohibiting discretionary federal funds from going to schools and colleges or universities that require students to get a
Health Feedback→ Sodium azide in some at-home rapid COVID-19 test kits only linked to toxicity due to accidental ingestion and other non-intended uses
REVIEW A Facebook reel posted in early 2025 claimed that at-home COVID-19 testing kits contain harmful substances. Specifically, the reel’s caption claimed that U.S. Poison Control Centers had alerted people about a “poisonous substance&
Full Fact→ Covid-19 does exist and germs can cause disease
A post circulating on Instagram features a woman making incorrect claims about Covid-19 and germs
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Pfizer didn’t release a new list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects
“Pfizer just released its list of side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Social Media Posts Do NOT Accurately Represent Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects As Of January 2025
Do social media posts share the real side effects of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine as of January 2025? No, that's not true: The post lists 'adverse events of special interest' that researchers are required to report if they happen during drug
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines not shown to have “negative efficacy”, contrary to claim by Nicolas Hulscher
REVIEW In January 2025, a Facebook post claimed that COVID-19 vaccines had “negative efficacy”, suggesting that the vaccines increased the risk of contracting COVID-19 instead of reducing it. The post cited a Japanese study published in 2024 as
Health Feedback→ The human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been circulating for decades and isn’t a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
REVIEW In January 2025, a claim began circulating online that Pfizer had “disclosed” human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infections as a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Human metapneumovirus is a respiratory virus that causes sympt
Health Feedback→ Pfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media
REVIEW Facebook posts circulating in early 2025 claimed that Pfizer had “just released” a list of side effects associated with its COVID-19 vaccine. These posts shared a list of approximately 40 to 50 medical conditions purportedly linke
Health Feedback→ New study from Brazil doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of death in the long term
REVIEW Since their rollout in December 2020, the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has been a frequent target of misinformation. Science Feedback repeatedly addressed claims about the alleged dangers of these vaccines, showing that many such assertions we
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, ivermectin still isn’t an effective COVID-19 treatment
“Ivermectin is a treatment after Covid and after vaccination, it is an effective medicine in all phases of Covid 19.”
Health Feedback→ Unvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths
REVIEW A series of Facebook posts from December 2024 questioned how “Billions of Unvaxxed people with NO Boosters are still alive”. This kind of loaded question is a typical example of the “just asking questions” tactic, which involves frami
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Pro-Vaccine’ Surgeon Did NOT Die Of COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Heart Attack
Did South African trauma surgeon Dr. Vicky Jennings die after "suffering a sudden heart attack" related to COVID-19 vaccination, as implied by social media posts? No, that's not true: Jennings' colleague and head of department told Lead S
FactCheck.org→ Fox News Commentator Had Aggressive Cancer Before COVID-19 Vaccines Were Available
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. SciCheck Digest Fox News health commentator Dr. Kelly Powers was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July 2020, months before COVID-19 vaccines we
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021
REVIEW A Facebook reel from early December 2024 claimed that the math of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing didn’t “add up”, alleging that it would take decades to produce enough vaccine doses to vaccinate the world population. The reel is a repos
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim Fox News commentator Kelly Powers died from cancer caused by COVID-19 vaccines is unfounded
Fox News commentator Dr. Kelly Powers died from “turbo cancer” caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Did NOT Cause Death Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Fox Contributor Kelly Powers — Cancer Diagnosis In Mid-2020
Was Fox News contributor Dr. Kelly Powers' death from cancer due to the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: An article calling her "fully vaccinated" implies that she passed away from the COVID vaccine. Powers was diagnosed with gliobl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Were NOT Manufactured By Military Contractors, But By Pfizer And Moderna
Were COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by military contractors rather than by Pfizer and Moderna? No, that's not true: FDA inspection records show the vaccines were made in drug industry labs. Pfizer pointed Lead Stories to publicly availabl
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, the CDC doesn’t recommend seven COVID-19 vaccine doses for 6-month-olds
“The CDC says that little 6 month old babies must get SEVEN doses of the Covid vaccine in order to be considered fully ‘up to date’ on their vaccinations.”
Health Feedback→ Flawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine
REVIEW In September 2024, a video posted on Facebook by the McCullough Foundation claimed that “brain clots […] are 112,000% more likely to occur after receiving a C-19 product than after receiving an influenza inoculation”. At the time
Health Feedback→ Japanese government didn’t declare COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to be deadly
REVIEW An 8 November 2024 post on X (formerly Twitter) claimed that “leading medical experts” in Japan declared COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were the “most deadly drug in [the] history of humankind”. The post further claimed an association between
Health Feedback→ Computational study didn’t demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase mortality in care homes
REVIEW Ten months after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.K. became the first country in the world to authorize and administer COVID-19 vaccines to its population. In September 2021, the U.K. began to recommend COVID-19 booster s
FactCheck.org→ Florida’s 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance Misunderstands, Distorts Existing Science
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. An abundance of evidence indicates the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and work well to protect against severe disease. But last month, the state of Florida issued update
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on the 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons. On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug
Health Feedback→ Peter McCullough misleads again about the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccines in viral interview
REVIEW In October 2024, a Facebook reel with more than half a million views showed cardiologist Peter McCullough claiming that “people are dying with these [COVID-19 vaccines]”. The reel shared a teaser of an interview between McCullough and Jos
Health Feedback→ Peter McCullough’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines might have caused rise in sudden deaths relies on flawed analysis
REVIEW In a September 2024 Facebook reel, cardiologist Peter McCullough linked myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination to sudden death. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that can reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood. Some cases
Full Fact→ How many people were treated in Covid-19 Nightingale hospitals?
There is some confusion online regarding the Nightingale hospitals and how many people they treated during the pandemic.
Health Feedback→ Higher COVID-19 death toll under Biden than Trump reflects longer presidential term spent managing the COVID-19 pandemic
REVIEW The U.S. faced a change in leadership amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic when Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president on 20 January 2021. This transition prompted comparisons about how well each administration managed the pandemic. One