Has Pfizer instructed male COVID-19 vaccine recipients to refrain from donating sperm, to wear condoms and/or be abstinent for at least 28 days after getting a shot? No, that's not true: A screenshot used as the basis of the claim was tak
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Health Feedback→ Current data from clinical trials offer no reliable evidence that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19; better-quality clinical trials are needed to resolve this question
REVIEW A Sky News segment hosted by Alan Jones and featuring Craig Kelly, a Member of the Australian Parliament, claimed that scientific studies supported the use of ivermectin for treating COVID-19. Published on 19 April 2021, the segment was share
Health Feedback→ Clinical trials and post-trial monitoring show that COVID-19 vaccines reduce the spread and occurrence of the disease
REVIEW Since several COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for use, numerous posts have circulated on social media claiming that these vaccines are experimental or that they don’t prevent the disease or its transmission. Some posts, like this one that w
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA after clinical trials demonstrated that they are safe and effective; COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimenta
REVIEW The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines allowed the U.S. to initiate a nationwide campaign of vaccination against the disease in December 2020. More than 138 million vaccine doses were administered as of 24 March 2021. U.S. president Joe B
Health Feedback→ Clinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild
REVIEW On 10 February 2021, a video was posted on the podcast channel The Joe Rogan Experience on the platform Spotify, in which commentator Joe Rogan (interviewing fellow commentator Michael Malice) made a series of statements about the side effects
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use prevent the disease and are generally safe based on rigorous clinical trials and ongoing monitoring
REVIEW A video claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and that healthcare workers who administer them are “war criminals” was published on 2 February 2021. The author of the video, titled “old man in a chair”, is Vernon Coleman, a for
Logically→ Israel’s new COVID-19 drug showed 96 percent efficacy in clinical trials.
According to reports, EXO-CD24 was 96 percent effective against COVID-19 in clinical trials, but additional trials will determine the final result
Health Feedback→ Strong evidence lacking to support claim that ivermectin is a cure for COVID-19 ; there are only limited clinical results at this stage
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the world since early 2020 sparked an intense research effort to uncover cures for it. To date, scientific and general public media outlets presented several molecules as possible cures for COVID-19, such
AFP Fact Check→ False claim circulates on Facebook about British grandmother who received UK’s first Covid-19 vaccine outside clinical trials
Photos of a 90-year-old British grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial have been shared repeatedly in multiple misleading Facebook posts in December 2020. The po
Health Feedback→ Cases of Bell’s palsy and death observed during Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine clinical trials were within expected background range of general population
REVIEW Following the publication of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech, social media posts and articles went viral on Facebook, claiming that the vaccine was responsible for causing adve
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates show high efficacy and a safe profile in clinical trials, contrary to claims in viral video
REVIEW This 7 December 2020 video shows a series of 34 clips from individuals from different countries, claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and unnecessary because the COVID-19 pandemic is not real. First published on YouTube, the platform
Health Feedback→ Dozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
REVIEW Claims that vitamin or mineral supplements, including zinc, selenium, and vitamins C and D can prevent or cure COVID-19 have circulated since the beginning of the pandemic. In late November 2020, numerous social media posts (examples here an
Health Feedback→ Dozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
REVIEW Claims that vitamin or mineral supplements, including zinc, selenium, and vitamins C and D can prevent or cure COVID-19 have circulated since the beginning of the pandemic. In late November 2020, numerous social media posts (examples here an
Health Feedback→ Dozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
REVIEW Claims that vitamin or mineral supplements, including zinc, selenium, and vitamins C and D can prevent or cure COVID-19 have circulated since the beginning of the pandemic. In late November 2020, numerous social media posts (examples here an
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates are rigorously tested for safety during clinical trials, unlike thalidomide; misleading to equate the two
REVIEW The relatively short timeline in which COVID-19 vaccine candidates have reached the advanced stages of clinical trials have led many members of the public to express concerns about their safety. Following the announcement of the U.K.’s appr
Snopes→ Did a Clinical Trial Participant Develop ‘Huge Bleeding Sores’ From a COVID-19 Vaccine?
The claim, which has spread across the anti-vaccine internet zeitgeist without context, stems from a GoFundMe page whose organizer has since walked back her claims.
Health Feedback→ No evidence that COVID-19 vaccines cause more severe disease; antibody-dependent enhancement has not been observed in clinical trials
SUMMARY A Facebook post claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine will lead to more severe disease, was published in November 2020 and went viral on the social media platform. Similar claims have also been published in other social media posts, like this o
Health Feedback→ Claim that mouthwash could reduce the spread of COVID-19 has not yet been confirmed by clinical trials in humans in
REVIEW Articles such as this one claiming that “mouthwashes could help curb COVID-19” circulated on social media in October 2020, receiving more than 27,000 interactions on Instagram and Facebook in one week according to the social media analyti
AFP Fact Check→ Hoax advert for Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials circulates across social media platforms in South Korea
An image purporting to show a recruitment advertisement by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Korea for participants in a paid Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial has been shared multiple times on various social media platforms in South Korea. However, thi
Full Fact→ Advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people varies by local lockdown area
We’ve been asked by readers whether people who were classed as extremely clinically vulnerable, and who live in areas affected by local lockdowns, are supposed to continue shielding. This depends on which area you live in. There are currently loc
Health Feedback→ Hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with azithromycin, found ineffective for treating COVID-19 in large clinical trials
REVIEW In late July 2020, numerous memes on social media spread the unsupported claim that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin (AZM), and zinc can cure COVID-19. Other versions questioned why the drug is considered unsafe for COVID-19 patients wh
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows Dr. Anthony Fauci emphasising the importance of clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci admitting vaccines are “toxic” and can “make you worse” during a press
Health Feedback→ Current evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase risk of sudden cardiac death
REVIEW In April 2024, a copy of a New Jersey doctor’s office policy regarding sports physicals for student athletes circulated on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. The policy stated that “Covid vaccinations affect your risk” of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Reliable Evidence’ Budwig Diet Can Cure Or Treat Cancer With Flaxseed Oil And Cottage Cheese
Is the "Budwig Diet" -- a diet rich in low-fat cottage cheese and organic flaxseed oil -- a scientifically proven treatment or preventative for cancer? No, that's not true: Oncological experts agree that there is "no reliable evidence to
Health Feedback→ Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
REVIEW On 31 March 2024, journalist James Howard Kunstler published a podcast interview with virologist Geert Vanden Bossche. In the interview, Vanden Bossche referred to COVID-19 vaccines as “a large-scale experiment of gain-of-function” and pr
Health Feedback→ Country-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
REVIEW Country-to-country comparisons have been used to push the narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, even though clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance proved the opposite[1-3]. Science Feedback previously covered such claims
FactCheck.org→ Posts Raise Unfounded Concerns About Aluminum in Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Small amounts of aluminum have been used for many decades to strengthen the immune response to vaccines. Exposure to high levels of aluminum has been associated with brain and bone problems, but there is no evidence that the level o
Health Feedback→ Febrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
REVIEW Monitoring the safety of vaccines once they are rolled out to the general population is an essential part of the vaccine development process. Doing this allows scientists to continually evaluate that a vaccine’s safety profile matches the r
Health Feedback→ Claim that the HPV vaccine increases risk of cervical cancer misleads by cherry-picking data from FDA document
REVIEW The World Health Organization reports that cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide. In 2022, there were approximately 660,000 new cases of cervical cancer and around 350,000 deaths from cervical cancer. The main ca
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: All Protein Powder Is NOT Made From Maggots — Video Shows Only One Product In South Korea
Does a viral video on Facebook prove that all protein powder is made from maggots? No, that's not true: The footage captures a single facility in South Korea that produces mealworm flour for human consumption. Most types of commercially a
Health Feedback→ 2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism
REVIEW On 6 January 2019, an episode of the TV show Full Measure, hosted by journalist Sharyl Attkisson, went viral on social media. The episode, titled “The Vaccine Debate”, claimed to provide evidence that the U.S. government knew long ago tha
Truth or Fiction?→ Soothe Your Husky’s Anxiety: Key Steps
Understanding Your Husky’s Anxiety Distinguishing between Separation Anxiety and Isolation Distress is crucial in understanding husky behaviors. Both issues revolve around being left alone but stem from different emotional needs and responses
Health Feedback→ No, a court didn’t rule that the FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19
REVIEW In June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s consumer advisory and social media posts advising consumers not to take ivermectin for COVID-19 became embroiled in a lawsuit. The lawsuit’s settlement in late March 2024 became
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Stretching Back, Arms Does NOT Improve Liver, Spleen Function Via ‘Meridians’
Does stretching the back and arms improve liver and spleen function by stimulating certain "meridians," as a post on Facebook suggested? No, that's not true: A gastroenterologist told Lead Stories that "there is no conclusive scientific e
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Misinterpret Biden on mRNA Cancer Vaccines
SciCheck Digest COVID-19 vaccines are not “being used to cure cancer,” as social media posts falsely claim, misinterpreting President Joe Biden’s reference to mRNA cancer vaccines during his State of the Union address. Biden was refer
Health Feedback→ Fluoride level in U.S. drinking water is safe; people of all ages, including infants, can consume fluoridated water
REVIEW Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that helps prevent tooth decay. It does so by strengthening tooth enamel and making teeth more resistant to acid attacks from plaque bacteria and sugars in the mouth, which can lead to dental caries (
Health Feedback→ Claims that long COVID doesn’t exist misrepresent study by Queensland Health researchers
REVIEW In March 2024, articles began circulating on social media platforms, alleging that Australian health officials claimed long COVID “isn’t real” or that it “doesn’t exist”. Examples of such articles appeared in the New York Post, Th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mixture Of Dates, Walnuts, Almonds, Raisins Soaked In Water And Ground NOT Proven To Kill Intestinal Worms
Does a paste of dates, walnuts, almonds and raisins steeped in water have scientifically proven deworming properties? No, that's not true: A board-certified medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases and internal medicine told Lea
Health Feedback→ Castor oil is only medically recognized as a laxative; other alleged medical benefits, including treating cancer, lack scientific support
REVIEW In March 2024, a Facebook video claimed that applying castor oil packs on the skin eliminates tumors, bone spurs, and uterine fibroids. The video was posted on the Facebook account of naturopath Barbara O’Neill, which has over 250,000 follo
Truth or Fiction?→ Which Portable ECG Machine Is The Best Looking?
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