Health Posted on: 2020-07-04 Internet memes based on hearsay claim that hospital laboratories falsify COVID-19 tests to inflate numbers without evidence Claim: Hospital laboratories falsify positive COVID-19 results Source: Facebook, Anonymous, 2020-06-27
Health Posted on: 2020-06-24 No, Bill Gates is not funding COVID-19 vaccines as a way to conduct global surveillance or to depopulate the world Claim: Bill Gates, founder of harmful vaccination campaigns in developing countries, now plans to use COVID-19 vaccines to surveil the population Source: The Truth About Cancer, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, 2020-06-13
Health Posted on: 2020-06-10 German Ministry employee makes unsupported claim that COVID-19 pandemic is a global false alarm in widely circulated yet unsolicited opinion article Claim: German government leaked document declares COVID-19 is “a global false alarm” Source: NewsPunch, Baxter Dmitry, 2020-06-02
Health Posted on: 2020-05-28 To date, no therapy has been proven effective for preventing or treating COVID-19, contrary to claim by Dolores Cahill Claim: There is no need for social distancing because we have a treatment for COVID-19 Source: The Highwire, Dolores Cahill, 2020-05-19
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2020-05-20 Claim that the Amish are healthier because they opt out of all vaccines is incorrect Claim: “The unvaccinated Amish rarely get cancer, autism, or heart disease.” Source: EndAllDisease, Mark Sloan, 2017-11-11
Imprecise Health Posted on: 2020-05-12 Current evidence suggests that COVID-19 may have a higher fatality rate than the flu, but a definitive conclusion requires more studies Claim: Antibody tests support what’s been obvious: Covid-19 is much more lethal than the flu Source: The Washington Post, Joel Achenbach, 2020-04-28