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Are NY Hospitals Not Letting Unvaccinated Parents Take Their Newborn Babies Home? Current research says that the risk of a newborn getting COVID-19 from a parent is...

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Did Norway Reclassify COVID-19 as the Flu? Social media posts claim the Scandinavian nation stated it was “no more dangerous than the...

Mostly False

‘Pfizermectin’? Is Pfizer’s New Drug Just Ivermectin in Disguise? "Protease inhibitors" are a class of antiviral drugs that have been used to treat HIV/AIDS,...

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Did a Funeral Home Advertise Using the Slogan ‘Don’t Get Vaccinated’? Photographs of a truck advertising "Wilmore Funeral Home" in North Carolina emerged in September 2021....

Mostly False

Did an Anti-Vaccine Protester Liken Nurses to Nazi War Criminals? A photograph of a sign that promised a second "Nuremberg" for those who administer COVID-19...

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Do COVID-19 Vaccines Make You Infertile? Here are the facts behind claims of impotency, placenta issues, and swollen testicles.

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No, Don’t Use Ivermectin-Soaked Tampons as COVID-19 Prevention Stay clear of this advice supposedly circulating on Facebook.

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Did 1 in 500 US Residents Die From COVID-19 by September 2021? A total of nearly 664,000 people were lost to the virus in the United States...

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Does Ivermectin Cause Sterility in Men? One study purportedly found that 85% of men who were given the anti-parasitic were sterile...

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Did Ivermectin Win a Nobel Prize? Ivermectin is not a treatment for COVID-19. The prize was awarded to the scientists who...

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Did NBC Report Vaccinated People Have Higher Levels of SARS-CoV-2? Memes claimed that vaccinated people were therefore contributing to the mid-summer COVID-19 surge.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Flu Prevention from 1918 A hundred years later and this simple advice still rings true.

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