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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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stated on November 17, 2015 a viral meme on social media
While Americans pray for Paris, the government has acted on mandatory national vaccinations.
Pants on Fire!
By April Hunt • November 20, 2015
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 map
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 14, 2015 a news conference
"In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated."  
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • October 25, 2015
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stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News
Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2015 a speech
"60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded."
True
October 14, 2015
Ora Houston
Ora Houston
stated on September 8, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget
"HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin."
False
By Mary Ann Roser • October 2, 2015
Martin Shkreli
Martin Shkreli
stated on September 21, 2015 comments on Bloomberg TV
"Daraprim is still underpriced, relative to its peers."  
False
By Linda Qiu • September 24, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP debate
There are a "multitude" of vaccines that do not prevent deadly and crippling diseases.
False
By April Hunt • September 23, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate
Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time."  
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 17, 2015
Reid Ribble
Reid Ribble
stated on September 8, 2015 an interview
Says Donald Trump "wants to replace" Obamacare "with a single-payer system."
Half-True
September 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2015 an op-ed in the New Hampshire Union-Leader
"Twenty-three million Americans suffer from addiction, but only 1 in 10 get treatment."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech
Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."
Mostly True
September 2, 2015
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on August 11, 2015 a speech at the Commerce Club
"Peachtree and Pine is one of the leading sites for tuberculosis in the nation."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • August 19, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 31, 2015 a speech to the National Urban League in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
"African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids."
True
August 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 3, 2015 a video
Says Scott Walker's defunding of Planned Parenthood "left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn" for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.
Half-True
August 7, 2015
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on July 16, 2015 radio interview
Caution: Kissing and cuddling chickens can be hazardous to your health.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • August 4, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on July 26, 2015 a New Hampshire interview
"97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 3, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 15, 2015 an interview
If women seeking an abortion see their ultrasound, "the odds are pretty high they're going to keep the baby."
Mostly False
July 22, 2015
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
stated on June 30, 2015 a Twitter post
The California governor "says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum" in vaccines.
False
By April Hunt • July 17, 2015
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