Medical Archives

What We Know About the Cancer-Detecting Blood Test The “revolutionary” large-scale trial is a world first.

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No, the Make-A-Wish Foundation Isn’t Denying Wishes to Unvaccinated Children A copypasta meme spread misinformation about critically ill children.

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Can You Die of COVID-19 if You Are Vaccinated? In short, no vaccine is 100% effective.

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Did a Bug That Lives on Soda Cans Infect This Person’s Lip? This video is disturbingly real. But the caption...?

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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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Did Fauci Spend Taxpayer Dollars on ‘Cruel and Unnecessary’ Test of Vaccine on Beagles? Allocated government funds for the experiment reportedly totaled nearly a half-million dollars.

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Did CDC Say 74% of COVID Cases Tied to Provincetown Event Were Fully Vaxxed? Some social media users misconstrued a statistic to suggest that COVID-19 vaccinations didn’t work.

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Yes, DC Now Has an Itch Mite Issue The biting pests came just weeks after the capital was rid of swarming cicadas.

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Did CDC Say That COVID-19 Vaccines Are ‘Failing’? Social media posts also claimed the U.S. health agency announced that the vaccinated are “superspreaders.”

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Did the CDC Recall PCR COVID-19 Tests Because They ‘Failed Full Review’? Social media posts alleged the tests were revoked after receiving the “most serious type of...

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Does This Chart Show When COVID-19 Variants Will Be ‘Released’? If credible scientists faced an uphill challenge to try to predict COVID-19 mutations, it was...

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Yes, the CDC Just Reversed Its Policy on Wearing Masks Indoors Even vaccinated individuals should be wearing masks in areas of high transmission rates.

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