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PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Social media post recasts celebrity deaths as part of conspiracy

2023-09-21 Princess Diana, actor Heath Ledger and musician John Lennon were “killed for exposing the truth.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter

2023-09-11 Heat was the underlying or contributing cause in about 1,670 U.S. deaths in 2022, provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows. That’s a rate of about 5 deaths per million residents, the highest heat-related death rate in at leas Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Myocarditis Did NOT Cause 850 Deaths In Two Weeks In Monterrey — Increased Deaths Happened During Heat Wave

2023-09-07 Did 850 deaths occur in two weeks in Monterrey, a city in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, that were caused by myocarditis? No, that's not true: The increased number of deaths in Mexico during June 2023 occurred during a heat wave, and i Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Daily Star corrects error in reporting obesity deaths

2023-09-06 The paper has corrected its claim that 2.8 billion people die of obesity each year, with the real figure being in millions. Go to site post…»

ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A study by Fauci and colleagues didn’t blame 1918 Spanish flu deaths on masks

2023-09-01 CLAIM: A study co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci showed that “most of the deaths” during the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic were actually due to infections from face masks. Go to site post…»

ABC News / AP Fact Check→ CDC data does not show that 99% of COVID-19 deaths were due to other causes

2023-08-30 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. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Vivek Ramaswamy – More deaths from climate policies than climate change? Scientists say Ramaswamy’s claim is baseless

2023-08-24 “The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.” Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Conspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors

2023-08-23 REVIEW A TikTok video published in early July 2023 implied that doctors practicing alternative medicine were killed to prevent “Big Pharma” from losing money. In the reel, herbalist Katryna Benson, who has more than 14,000 followers on TikTok, p Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Injection Protects Babies from RSV Hospitalization, Has Not Been Linked to Deaths

2023-08-18 SciCheck Digest Each year, respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizes 58,000 to 80,000 children under age 5 in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved an antibody injection for babies to protect them during the RSV season. There i Go to site post…»

ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Posts mislead on clinical trial deaths to suggest new RSV drug for babies isn’t safe

2023-08-10 CLAIM: Federal officials are recommending a new shot against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, even though 12 babies died during clinical trials. Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Flawed preprint based on autopsies inadequate to demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines caused 74% of those deaths

2023-07-31 REVIEW On 5 July 2023, a manuscript titled “A systematic review of autopsy findings in deaths after COVID-19 vaccination” was uploaded to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a preprint server associated with The Lancet. The review analyz Go to site post…»

Logically→ There were, in fact, excess deaths during the 2022 heatwave in the U.K. and Europe

2023-07-21 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – A COVID-19 vaccine skeptic died, reviving false claims about deaths of alternative medicine doctors

2023-07-11 Deaths of four alternative medicine doctors show they are being targeted for their ideas. Go to site post…»

Logically→ Lancet study did not show 74 percent of deaths were caused by COVID-19 vaccinations

2023-07-11 Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A ‘Lancet Study’ Does NOT Show COVID Vaccine Caused 74% Of Deaths In Sample — Lancet Rejected Paper And Its Methods

2023-07-07 Did a preprint paper submitted to The Lancet on July 5, 2023, find that 74 percent of the deaths in the autopsies it reviewed were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine? Additionally, was it also a legitimate study from The Lancet? No, neither i Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Did NOT Cause Breast Cancer Deaths In Young Women To Surge To 297,000 In 2023

2023-07-03 Did COVID-19 vaccines cause a massive mortality spike in breast cancer female patients below the age of 45, reaching 297,000 deaths during the first six months of 2023? No, that's not true: Posts on social media distorted a report publish Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claim about breast cancer deaths wildly misstates American Cancer Society data

2023-06-29 Video suggests COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for breast cancer deaths in women under age 45 rising from 26,000 in 2021 to 297,000 in 2023. Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Mirror wrong to say NHS standards ‘since Covid’ behind excess cardiovascular deaths

2023-06-23 A print article claimed that poor NHS standards were the reason for almost 100,000 excess cardiovascular deaths since 2020, but it didn’t mention that Covid itself might have caused most of them. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Baseless claims that Titan passengers faked their own deaths start to spread online

2023-06-22 The Titan “submarine never happened. They faked their own deaths.” Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Ventilators Save Lives, Did Not Cause ‘Nearly All’ COVID-19 Deaths

2023-06-01 SciCheck Digest Ventilators can be lifesaving for critically ill COVID-19 patients. A social media claim that a new study shows ventilators killed “nearly all” COVID-19 patients is “quite wrong,” according to the study’s co-author. Ve Go to site post…»

Logically→ WHO’s VigiAccess data used to misrepresent vaccine injuries and deaths

2023-05-25 Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ UK’s worst week for Covid-19 deaths far worse than viral post claims

2023-05-16 A viral claim on social media that 652 people died in the UK’s worst week of the pandemic is far too low. The true figure is almost 10,000. Go to site post…»

Logically→ U.K.’s ONS data has been misrepresented to show that COVID vaccines caused 600,000 deaths in the U.S.

2023-05-02 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – An anti-abortion group claimed 28 deaths were linked to mifepristone. Here’s why that’s flawed

2023-04-26 “The abortion pill has been linked to the deaths of at least 28 women in the U.S. alone.” Go to site post…»

Logically→ No, the BBC has not admitted that the COVID-19 vaccines caused excess deaths in 2022 in the U.K.

2023-04-24 Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Analysis by insurance executive Josh Stirling misrepresents official UK data, doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines led to 600,000 deaths

2023-04-20 REVIEW An article published by the website The Florida Standard claimed that 600,000 Americans died from the COVID-19 vaccines, attributing this to an analysis by insurance executive Josh Stirling. Stirling collaborated with financier Edward Dowd to Go to site post…»

Logically→ No, 20 million global deaths haven’t been directly attributed to COVID-19 vaccines

2023-04-19 Go to site post…»

AllSides→ No Evidence Excess Deaths Linked to Vaccines, Contrary to Claims Online

2023-04-18 https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/scicheck-no-evidence-excess-deaths-linked-to-vaccines-contrary-to-claims-online/ Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Excess Deaths Linked to Vaccines, Contrary to Claims Online

2023-04-17 SciCheck Digest COVID-19 vaccines substantially reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19, and serious side effects are very rare. Excess deaths among working-age adults in 2021 and 2022 were driven by COVID-19 and other factors, not vaccination. Faul Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ An ONS study didn’t show that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a higher risk of heart-related deaths in women, contrary to viral claim

2023-04-13 REVIEW Claims that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine increased the risk of heart-related death in young women went viral on social media in early April 2023 (examples here and here). The claim was based on a 27 March 2023 study by the U.K. Office for Go to site post…»

Poynter→ Do loose gun laws lead to more gun deaths? Sometimes, but not always.

2023-04-12 Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., one of Congress’ leading advocates of stricter gun laws, recently tweeted a statistic that he said shows that more restrictive gun laws can save lives. “The […] The post Do loose gun laws lead to more gun death Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Chris Murphy – Do loose gun laws lead to more gun deaths? Fact-checking Sen. Chris Murphy’s claim

2023-04-11 “The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws” while “the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Report doesn’t prove COVID-19 vaccines caused excess deaths

2023-04-06 Report proves that COVID-19 vaccines caused 300,000 excess deaths in 2022. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Teletubbies’ Were NOT Inspired By Purported Story Of Institutionalized Children’s Horrifying Deaths

2023-03-21 Was the "Teletubbies" television show based on a story of four psychotic children who purportedly were abused and who ultimately died horrifying deaths in a mental health institution? No, that's not true: The creators of the show said the Go to site post…»

Logically→ 92% of COVID-19 deaths are among the fully vaccinated, according to a government study.

2023-03-20 Go to site post…»

Logically→ 92% of COVID-19 deaths are among the fully vaccinated, according to a government study.

2023-03-17 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden says domestic violence calls prompt most police deaths; data lists likelier causes

2023-03-15 “More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence New Zealand’s ‘Biggest Increase In Registered Deaths In 100 Years’ Related To COVID Vaccine

2023-03-07 Is the "biggest increase in registered deaths in 100 years" in New Zealand due to the nation's high vaccination rate? No, that's not true: "There is absolutely no evidence that the increase in mortality in 2022 is related to Covid-19 vacc Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK Government Report Does NOT Prove 92% Of COVID Deaths Occurred In ‘Fully Vaccinated’

2023-03-01 Do 92 percent of COVID-19 deaths occur in fully vaccinated individuals, according to official data released by the U.K. government in February 2023? No, that's not true: That report is not meant to be a measure of vaccine effectiveness, a Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – COVID-19 vaccines did not cause a 17% increase in deaths in Australia in 2022

2023-02-23 In Australia, a “17% increase in heart attack deaths” in the first eight months of 2022 is linked to COVID-19 vaccination. Go to site post…»

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