Latest Stories By Gabrielle Settles

During the public comment period of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration online advisory committee meeting on vaccines in September, Steve Kirsch took the virtual floor with a slide presentation and a troubling claim: that the Pfizer vaccine was killing five times as many people as it saved. Kirsch is not a medical professional, scientist […]

See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com   Flurona is not a new strain of coronavirus. It is simply a buzzword used to describe testing positive for two distinct viruses — influenza and COVID-19 — at the same time. >>  

According to a meme of actor Will Smith, the omicron variant of COVID-19 is easy to treat with common cold medicine.  Several Facebook users, including conservative politician Kimberly Klacik, shared a two-part image listing the “top five” omicron symptoms, which it says are runny nose, headache, fatigue, sneezing and sore throat. At the bottom of […]

A PolitiFact reader forwarded us an emailed claim from a leading Democratic fundraising committee that piqued our interest.  The email, sent by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on behalf of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, read: “At least 10 people involved in the Capitol riots were just elected to state and local office. At least FIVE […]

Q: Does the CDC lack data on reinfection among people with natural immunity to COVID-19?  A: The CDC does track COVID-19 cases of unvaccinated people who were previously infected and tested positive again. That’s a separate question from a public records request that sought documentation of transmission of COVID-19 by unvaccinated people who are reinfected. The […]

Colin Powell, the retired general and diplomat with a legacy of breaking barriers during his military and civilian careers, died Oct. 18. In a brief statement posted on Facebook, Powell’s family said the cause of death was complications from COVID-19, noting that he had been fully vaccinated.  Powell spent 35 years in the U.S. Army, […]

An incident at a June 8, 2021, press conference with Vice President Kamala Harris in Mexico City turned heads among journalists and non-journalists alike. But what appeared to be a breach of professional ethics turned out to be a case of misidentification.  During the news conference, a woman who was introduced by Harris’ chief White […]

Editor’s note, June 11, 2021: Some of the videos that PolitiFact viewed and linked to in this story have been subsequently removed from YouTube and are no longer available for public viewing. A brief clip is available via Twitter; view it here.  Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, appeared to say a coup […]

An Instagram post says: “6,000% Increase in Reported Vaccine Deaths 1st Quarter 2021 Compared to 1st Quarter 2020.” An article from a media outlet called The Daily Expose carried the headline: “Number of women to lose their unborn child after having the COVID vaccine increases by 366% in just six weeks.”  The headline on an […]