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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on September 20, 2021 a commercial shown on television and online
Insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats “are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi and Schumer’s out-of-control spending spree.”
False
By Victoria Knight • September 28, 2021
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on September 1, 2021 on social media
Texas “ranks 50th in baby wellness checks, ranks 50th in clinical care for infants, ranks 50th in uninsured women, ranks 43rd in maternal mortality, ranks 44th in school funding per child, and ranks 46th in child hunger.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2021
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on August 30, 2021 an Instagram post
“The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 26, 2021 a post on Facebook
Video shows “pupils in Nigeria running away from being vaccinated.”
False
August 27, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 4, 2021 an Instagram post
A six-month study from Pfizer shows that its vaccine “reduces severe COVID symptoms/hospitalizations by .1%.”
Mostly False
By Andy Nguyen • August 17, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 3, 2021 Twitter
“324,000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.”
True
By Madeline Heim • August 13, 2021
Erin Marie Olszewski
Erin Marie Olszewski
stated on August 2, 2021 an Instagram post
“It’s not unusual for hospitals to sit at max or near max capacity on any given day.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • August 11, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 1, 2021 a Facebook post
"They didn't allow" Simone Biles "to take her ADHD medication."
False
August 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 18, 2021 a Facebook post
Ethylene oxide used in COVID-19 testing swabs “literally changes the structure of the building blocks of your own body.”
False
By Andy Nguyen • July 29, 2021
Terri Bryant
Terri Bryant
stated on July 13, 2021 a radio interview
“You may be 55 years old in [Illinois] and a citizen and not eligible for Medicaid. But if you are an undocumented immigrant and 55 or older, you’re eligible for Medicaid.”
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 20, 2021
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on June 15, 2021 Twitter
“Wisconsin is 49th in public health spending.”
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • July 9, 2021
Derrick Van Orden
Derrick Van Orden
stated on June 12, 2021 Twitter
Says Joe Biden “will force Americans to pay for abortion — on demand — up to birth.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • June 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2021 a Facebook post
“The unvaccinated have escaped every single strain or 'variant’” of SARS-CoV-2.
False
By Andy Nguyen • June 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 2, 2021 a Facebook post
Emails show that Fauci knew "hydroxychloroquine worked [and] emailed friends about it being effective."
False
By Andy Nguyen • June 15, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2021 an interview on MSNBC
"Sadly during the course of the pandemic one-third of our small businesses have closed."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 7, 2021
Hal Turner Radio Show
Hal Turner Radio Show
stated on May 20, 2021 a blog post
People with the COVID-19 vaccine are being "tracked in real time via 5G cellular, and all that data can be hacked into to track you."
Pants on Fire!
By Andy Nguyen • May 28, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 16, 2021 an Instagram post
The Moderna vaccine contains an ingredient that is “for research use only, not meant for human or veterinary use.”
False
By Andy Nguyen • May 21, 2021
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on May 12, 2021 testimony before a House subcommittee
"There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 remarks on the American Families Plan
For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”
False
By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on March 21, 2021 TV interview
"There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • May 7, 2021
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