Were Super Bowl LV attendees "packed like sardines" at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 7, 2021, creating the potential of a superspreader COVID-19 event? No, that's not true: Those weren't all people at the champions
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Health Feedback→ Article claiming that masks contribute to cancer development misrepresents a study about lung cancer, which didn’t involve masks at all
REVIEW An article published at the end of January 2021 by the outlet Blacklisted News, identified as a “conspiracy-pseudoscience” source by Media Bias/Fact Check, claimed that mask-wearing over a prolonged period of time contributes to the devel
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Students Did NOT Jump From A Balcony At School To Flee A Mandatory Vaccine
Did students in a school in Nigeria jump from a balcony to get away from a mandatory vaccine? No, that's not true: This is video of a May 2019 incident at the Community Secondary School in Oroworukwo, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The stampe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canada Is NOT Putting Passengers Arriving On International Flights In ‘Forced Detention…COVID Camp’
Is the Canadian government putting passengers arriving on international flights into 'forced detention' in a 'COVID camp'? No, that's not true: Canada has recently required passengers arriving on international flights, who had traveled fo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Irish Health Service Did NOT ‘Admit’ Novel Coronavirus Doesn’t Exist, Nor That Masks, Distancing and Lockdowns Don’t Work
Did Irish Health Service officials "admit" COVID-19 does not exist? No, that's not true: The claim rests on a purported Irish Health Service (HSE) letter the agency says does not exist. The person based her claim on a bit of sophistry: Sh
Hoax-Slayer→ ‘Covid-19 Lottery Prize’ Advance Fee Scam
According to this email, you have been selected as a winner of the million-dollar Covid-19 relief lotto award. The post ‘Covid-19 Lottery Prize’ Advance Fee Scam appeared first on Hoax-Slayer.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elderly Woman In Washington State Was NOT ‘Kidnapped’ For Refusing To Take A Test For COVID-19
Was an elderly woman in Washington state "kidnapped" for refusing to take a COVID-19 test? No, that's not true: The woman was placed in quarantine while she received medical treatment, according to a statement from the Clark County Sherif
Health Feedback→ Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
REVIEW A video of an interview, published by The New American on 15 January 2021, featured Lee Merritt, an orthopedic surgeon and former president of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The AAPS has previously published misin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Illegally Called ‘Vaccines’, Are Effective Against Virus And Do Slow Spread
Have Moderna and Pfizer delivered vaccines that cannot legally be called COVID-19 "vaccines" and are these mRNA shots only designed to relieve symptoms caused by the S-1 spike protein, not by the SARS-CoV-2 virus? No, neither claim is tru
Health Feedback→ The American Journal of Medicine didn’t recommend hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19; scientific evidence doesn’t show hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID-19
REVIEW In late January 2021, social media posts and articles claimed that hydroxychloroquine was effective for the early treatment of COVID-19 patients based on a scientific publication in The American Journal of Medicine. The claim went viral on so
Poynter→ The WHO did not say you don’t need to wear a mask
As some experts have advised Americans to wear higher-quality or multiple face masks to protect against the coronavirus, a recent blog post that’s spreading widely on social media claims the World Health Organization says no masks are necessary.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: France And Australia Did NOT Say COVID-19 Vaccine Is A Fraud
Did France and Australia suspend their COVID-19 vaccination programs and say vaccine is a fraud? No, that's not true. Both France and Australia are continuing their vaccination programs to protect people from coronavirus infection. The cl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The World Health Organization (WHO) Did NOT Say You Do Not Need To Wear A Mask
Did the World Health Organization (WHO) say you do not need to wear a mask? No, that's not true: A WHO Global COVID-19 Press Conference on January 22, 2021 emphasized that the public needs to wear masks in order to protect themselves from
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines currently in use stimulate immunity to the same degree as natural infection without exposing the vaccinated person to the risks associated with the disease
On 25 January 2021, the U.S biopharmaceutical company Merck announced its decision to stop the development of its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. This article, published on 26 January 2021 by Summit News, reported on Merck’s announcement and claim
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines currently in use stimulate immunity to the same degree as natural infection without exposing the vaccinated person to the risks associated with the disease
On 25 January 2021, the U.S biopharmaceutical company Merck announced its decision to stop the development of its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. This article, published on 26 January 2021 by Summit News, reported on Merck’s announcement and claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Hold The Line’ Video Contains Several False Claims About Biden, Trump, COVID-19
Does a video titled "Hold The Line" present the truth about President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and a range of other subjects from COVID-19 to birth certificates? No, that's not true. The video pushes debunked QAnon conspir
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Are NO Corroborating Reports Of Indiana Woman’s Claim That Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Caused Her Convulsions
Does the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine cause full-body convulsions? No, there is no evidence proving that convulsions are a potential side effect of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a spokesperson from the U.S. Food and Drug Administ
Logically→ Oxford reversed its decision to open-license the Covid-19 vaccine.
Oxford University had initially planned to provide non exclusive contracts for the vaccine before signing a deal with AstraZenica.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: California DID Lift Stay-At-Home Order While Hospitalizations Remain High — Because Those Numbers Are Dropping
Did California lift the state's regional stay-at-home order in January 2021 even though hospitalization numbers are much higher than when the order was put in place in 2020? Yes, but that summary leaves out context: California Gov. Gavin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Merck Did NOT Say It Is ‘Better’ to Get COVID And Recover Than Take Its Vaccines
Did Merck say it is "better" to get COVID-19 and recover than to take its vaccines? No, that's not true: The pharmaceutical company said it was halting development of its vaccines because they were not as effective in providing immunity a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is Statistically Inevitable Some People Will Get Sick And Die Of Unrelated Causes After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
If someone becomes sick or dies after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, is the shot necessarily to blame? No, that's not true: It is statistically inevitable that some people will get sick and die after getting the shot, for reasons that are un
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Masks Cause Bacterial Lung Infections In Children
Do masks cause bacterial lung infections in children? No, that's not true: There's no evidence that masks lead to bacterial infection in children or adults, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and medica
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Peruvian Court Declaration, There Is NO Evidence Soros, Gates and Rockefeller Created COVID-19
Did George Soros, Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family create the COVID-19 virus, as a three-judge Peruvian court declared? No, that's not true: Although the exact location and origin of the virus has not been definitively identified, ma
Health Feedback→ Frequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
REVIEW Baseball legend Hank Aaron passed away at the age of 86 on 22 January 2021. Aaron was among several civil rights icons to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on 5 January 2021. Motivated by the wish to show the African-American community tha
Poynter→ 10,300 documented falsehoods in 12 months: the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance enters its second year
Today, the International Fact-Checking Network is honoring the one-year anniversary of the CoronaVirusFacts Alliance – the global collaborative project launched by 99 fact-checking organizations from more than 70 countries. The alliance is the larges
Health Feedback→ Most positive COVID-19 PCR test results are true positives; WHO information notice didn’t change threshold or criteria for a positive COVID-19 test
REVIEW Claims aimed at discrediting the COVID-19 PCR test and by extension, public health responses to the pandemic including the wearing of face masks, have repeatedly made their appearance over the course of the pandemic. An Information Notice reg
Health Feedback→ Too early for conclusions on long-term COVID-19 immunity, but some findings suggest that immune memory against the virus lasts for up to eight months and possibly longer
SUMMARY This article, published on 6 Jan. 2021 by MIT Technology Review, titled “COVID-19 immunity likely lasts for years”, reports the findings of a study led by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. The article received more th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Death Is NOT Listed As A Possible Adverse Reaction To COVID-19 Vaccines
Is death listed as a possible adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccines in use in the United States? No, that's not true: Neither the Pfizer-BioNTech nor the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, both of which the Food and Drug Administration have appro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Admit On Video He Has COVID-19
Did Bill Gates admit he has COVID-19? No, that's not true: A headline on a 20-second video posted online claims that Gates "admits he has COVID-19." The short video is deceptively edited from a longer video of Gates speaking with the head
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Did NOT Halt Production Of The COVID-19 Vaccine Due To Deaths
Did Pfizer halt production of the COVID-19 vaccine due to deaths? No, that's not true: The pharmaceutical company said that it's making improvements to a facility in Belgium, resulting in a "temporary reduction in the number of doses deli
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lin Wood Did NOT Base His Claims Of Trump Landslide, COVID Hoax, Vaccine Lethality On Verifiable Sources
Did Lin Wood have iron-clad sources for his on-camera claims that Donald Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide, that COVID-19 is a mild flu China used as a weapon against the U.S. and that the Pfizer vaccine is dangerous? No, that's
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence This Tonic Recipe Will Change Outcomes For People Infected With COVID-19
Will this tonic routine treat COVID-19 in the way that is claimed, and can it prevent anyone who adheres to this regimen from dying of COVID? No, that's not true: This COVID remedy, which is intended to be used as both an inhaled steam tr
Health Feedback→ VAERS reports alone don’t demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccines caused adverse events; evidence does not indicate vaccines caused Bell’s palsy and deaths
REVIEW An article published in mid-January 2021 by Children’s Health Defense, an organization which opposes vaccines, claimed that thousands of adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine, including deaths, were reported in December 2020. The o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Viral Photo Of Doctors And Nurses In Italy Does NOT Show Them Holding A Sign Saying, ‘Jesus Stops This Virus’
Did a viral photo of doctors and nurses in Italy, who were treating COVID-19 patients, show them holding up a sign, which begins "Jesus Stops this Virus"? No, that's not true: The sign doctors and nurses are holding in the original photo,
Health Feedback→ Lower flu activity this season likely due to COVID-19 restrictions, increased flu vaccination, and other factors, not to misdiagnosis of flu cases as COVID-19
REVIEW So far, the 2020-2021 flu season has seen fewer cases than in previous years, leading to allegations that flu cases are being misdiagnosed as COVID-19. These claims started circulating on social media in late 2020 and early 2021, including th
Poynter→ The new COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy, explained
As the United States continues to set daily record highs for COVID-19 cases and deaths, the Trump administration is embracing a new vaccine distribution strategy: Give states all available doses instead of holding back supply reserved for second doses.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 3,150 People Were NOT ‘Paralyzed’ After Receiving A COVID-19 Vaccine
Were 3,150 people "paralyzed" after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: That figure represents the number of people who reported a health impact event. Such an event is defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Health Feedback→ Vaccines protect people from diseases, but don’t always prevent disease transmission; research ongoing to determine if COVID-19 vaccines stop transmission
REVIEW A YouTube live stream recorded on 5 January 2020, featured David Martin, who claimed that the COVID-19 RNA vaccines are not vaccines because they don’t fulfill the definitions of a vaccine according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine did not cause the death of a Portuguese woman, contrary to social media posts suggestions
REVIEW On 4 January 2021, the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reported the sudden death of Sonia Azevedo, a 41-year-old operational assistant at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) in Porto. Azevedo’s death occurred on 1 January
Health Feedback→ The CDC reports more than 2.9 million deaths in the U.S. in 2020; at least 377,000 more deaths in 2020 compared to previous years
REVIEW A screenshot of a tweet made by rapper and activist Maj Toure on 31 December 2020 (see the original tweet archived here), claiming that there were fewer deaths in America in 2020 compared to 2019, was published in numerous Facebook posts and