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  • Fact Check: 'PCR' Test For COVID Does NOT Inflate Case Count By 90%

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    Has the widely-used PCR test for COVID-19 returned false positive results, exaggerating the number of Americans infected? No, that's not true: The test accurately determines whether patients' nasal swabs show infection. But anti-quarantine-and-mask activists, who did none of their own reporting, have misused the results of a reporter's recent analysis of testing: it shows many who are infected may not…

    • Sep 16, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'PCR' Test For COVID Does NOT Inflate Case Count By 90% Apples/Oranges
  • Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally

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    Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fraudulently add deaths from poisoning, trauma and unintentional injury to its tally of COVID-19 deaths? No, that's not true: That claim is based on a mischaracterization of CDC listings of patients' other health conditions, which are commonly listed on death certificates as "comorbidities." The claim cites as a source "c19study," an…

    • Sep 4, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally Data Distorted
  • Fact Check: NO 'Massive International Study' Shows Countries with Early HCQ Use Had 79% Lower Mortality Rate

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    Did a "massive international study" show a much lower COVID-19 mortality rate in countries where hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients? No, that's not true: The "C19study" is not a massive international study. It is an anonymous collection of words and graphics referring to other scientific papers, but does not itself qualify as a scientific paper or study: No medical expert…

    • Sep 2, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: NO 'Massive International Study' Shows Countries with Early HCQ Use Had 79% Lower Mortality Rate Cherry-picking
  • Fact Check: List Of Speakers For The 2020 GOP Convention -- Including 'MyPillow Guy' and 'Demon Sperm Doctor' -- Is NOT Official

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    Are the "MAGA hat kid from Covington Catholic," the "MyPillow guy," the "demon sperm doctor," musician Kid Rock, actor Scott Baio and the "racist gun couple" all featured speakers at the 2020 Republican National Convention? No, that's not true: The final lineup has not been announced. However, some of the people in that list are expected to speak, and others…

    • Aug 20, 2020
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: List Of Speakers For The 2020 GOP Convention -- Including 'MyPillow Guy' and 'Demon Sperm Doctor' -- Is NOT Official Lineup TBD
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence That Countries Using Hydroxychloroquine Have Far Fewer COVID-19 Deaths

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    Have multiple studies shown that countries treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine suffer fewer deaths than those like the U.S. where its use is restricted? No, that's not true: The claim was made without citing any such studies. Lead Stories has not found peer-reviewed clinical studies that declare hydroxychloroquine is a cure, and the World Health Organization has declared the opposite putting…

    • Aug 4, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: NO Evidence That Countries Using Hydroxychloroquine Have Far Fewer COVID-19 Deaths Straw Villain
  • Fact Check: Dr. Fauci Did NOT Say In 2005 That Hydroxychloroquine Was Both A Cure And A Vaccine For Coronavirus

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    Did Dr. Anthony Fauci say that hydroxychloroquine was both a cure and a vaccine for coronavirus in 2005? No, that's not true: The National Institutes of Health did publish a study in 2005 that reported hopeful signs from in-vitro tests that chloroquine, not hydroxychloroquine, had potential against SARS-CoV-1, not SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that is responsible for the current COVID-19…

    • Aug 3, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Dr. Fauci Did NOT Say In 2005 That Hydroxychloroquine Was Both A Cure And A Vaccine For Coronavirus Misinformation
  • Fact Check: Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc And Zithromax Are NOT A Cure For COVID-19

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    Are hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax a cure for COVID-19? No, that's not true: As Lead Stories reported previously, global health experts continue to say that there are no drugs that have been shown to prevent or cure the infection. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here). The post included a video and the following text: BREAKING American Doctors…

    • Jul 28, 2020
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc And Zithromax Are NOT A Cure For COVID-19 Bad Science
  • Fact Check: Dr. Kelly Victory's 'COVID Facts' Video Includes Many Claims That Are NOT Facts

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    Does a video by Dr. Kelly Victory that promises to discuss "COVID facts" deliver all factual claims? No, that's not true: Lead Stories identified at least 10 "facts" that are false, including claims that children are at "virtually no risk" from the novel coronavirus, that social distancing is "not an established public health concept," and that there is "no scientific…

    • Jul 13, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Dr. Kelly Victory's 'COVID Facts' Video Includes Many Claims That Are NOT Facts Bad Medicine
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Social Distancing And COVID-19 Are A Government Plot To Track And Control Citizens

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    Are social distancing guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic part of a government plot to track and control citizens? No, that's not true: Osteopath Rashid Buttar, a practitioner who has been sued for fraud, made the claim in a video rant that also included other false claims. There is no evidence to support Dr. Buttar's claim that the government wants Americans…

    • Jun 13, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Social Distancing And COVID-19 Are A Government Plot To Track And Control Citizens Not A Plot
  • Fact Check: Dr. Birx Did NOT Slip And Admit She Works For Bill Gates And WHO

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    Did Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the White House, have "a Freudian slip" and acknowledge that she actually works for billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and the World Health Organization? No, that is not true: Birx, who appeared on CNN in April, did say the word "gates," but that was in reference to markers used for states to…

    • May 19, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Dr. Birx Did NOT Slip And Admit She Works For Bill Gates And WHO Not Bill Gates
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