During a town hall event on Oct. 15, NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie pressed President Donald Trump on his sharing of a baseless conspiracy theory that accused his election rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, of murder. The theory, which has no b
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Health Feedback→ COVID-19 is more deadly and more contagious than seasonal flu and can also cause long-lasting damage to survivors
REVIEW The claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that COVID-19 is no more dangerous than flu started circulating in several articles around 8 October 2020 (examples here and here). Similar versions of this claim received over 20,0
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 is more deadly and more contagious than seasonal flu and can also cause long-lasting damage to survivors
REVIEW The claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that COVID-19 is no more dangerous than flu started circulating in several articles around 8 October 2020 (examples here and here). Similar versions of this claim received over 20,0
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than seasonal flu, according to current estimates
REVIEW An Instagram post by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that COVID-19 is less deadly than flu started circulating on 27 September 2020. The post replicates a table included in a 10 September 2020 update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Covid 19 Will NOT Go Away If You Stop Getting Tested, It’s NOT Just The Elderly Dying and NO ONE Is Being Intentionally Infected
Does not getting tested for Covid 19 make the disease disappear? Are the elderly the only people dying? Are Democratic governors intentionally infecting them? No, no and no. Those are not true: You will have the disease regardless of whet
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fraudulently add deaths from poisoning, trauma and unintentional injury to its tally of COVID-19 deaths? No, that's not true: That claim is based on a mischaracterization of CDC list
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on Coronavirus Vaccines
In the more than eight months since the novel coronavirus emerged and then spread around the world, scientists across the globe have made rapid progress on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sept. 3, at least 176 vaccines are in the works, with nearl
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Fox News Interview
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired over two days, President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims: Trump falsely took credit for getting the National Guard to Kenosha to help quell violent p
FactCheck.org→ CDC Did Not ‘Admit Only 6%’ of Recorded Deaths from COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t drastically reduced the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, but posts making that bogus claim have been circulating widely — with the help of President Donald Trump, who retweeted
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths from 153,504 to 9,210
If your time is short President Donald Trump retweeted multiple posts that falsely claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decreased the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths to 9,210. Those posts misconstrue data from the CDC, which shows t
Truth or Fiction?→ Were 94 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Caused by ‘Underlying Conditions’?
A false interpretation of new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spread online in late August 2020, buoyed by both social media and various local television news outlets. The result was a slew of posts and stories pushing t
Health Feedback→ False claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC-reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning
REVIEW The claim that only 6% of COVID-19 deaths officially recorded in the U.S. were actually due to the disease started circulating on social media in late August 2020, and was shared on Twitter by U.S. President Donald Trump. The author of this cla
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Admit That Only 6% Of Deaths In COVID Toll Were From COVID-19
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly admit this week that only 6% of all people in the COVID-19 death tally actually died from COVID-19? No, that's not true: The chiropractor who made the claim has misstated the
Health Feedback→ Flawed “study” incorrectly claims that countries adopting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 experienced reduced mortality rates
REVIEW On 5 August 2020, an “analysis” comparing COVID-19 mortality rates in countries with different practices regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease started circulating in social media posts on Facebook and Twitter. In th
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading COVID-19 Comparisons to Other Countries
In a flurry of tweets and remarks, President Donald Trump continued to distort the facts on the coronavirus pandemic: In a series of comments focused on the surging number of COVID-19 cases elsewhere in the world, Trump left the misleading impression
Health Feedback→ A proportion of COVID-19 survivors are likely to suffer from long-term health problems, but the actual risks are still unknown
REVIEW A July 2020 post on Quora, which is a question-and-answer website, went viral on Facebook after users began sharing screenshots or copies of the original post (see an example here). The post’s author, Franklin Veaux, attempts to answer the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hypercapnia Does NOT Occur From Constant Use Of A Mask As Advised During The COVID-19 Outbreak
Does the constant use of a mask cause hypercapnia -- a buildup of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream? No, that's not true. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, a false claim that wearing masks causes hypercapnia is going viral. The Centers for D
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Doctors Are NOT ‘Encouraged’ By Hospitals And AMA To Overcount COVID-19 Deaths
Are U.S. doctors encouraged by hospitals and the American Medical Association to list COVID-19 on a death certificate when the novel coronavirus was not the cause of death? No, that's not true: While hospitals may get additional Medicare or Me
FactCheck.org→ Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count
Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more? A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. FULL QUESTIO
Truth or Fiction?→ Did the CDC Order All Deaths Be Recorded as a Result of COVID-19 — Even Heart Attacks and Accidents?
In April 2020, a conspiracy theory spread on Facebook and Twitter which maintained that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explicitly ordered that all deaths in the United States, regardless of their true cause, be attributed to t
Truth or Fiction?→ Are COVID-19 Patients With High BMIs Being Denied Ventilators?
As the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic became more omnipresent in American life in mid-March 2020, Twitter and Instagram rumors about coronavirus patients with high body mass indices being denied ventilator treatment began to spread. On Twitter on March
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: WHO Is Looking Into Concerns About Anti-Inflammatories With Coronavirus
Do anti-inflammatories aggravate coronavirus infection? That's a valid concern, and one that the World Health Organization is looking in to. But no formal recommendation has yet been made. The concern originated in a correspondence published o