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FactCheck.org says: Dr. Joseph Ladapo cited guidelines for assessing DNA vaccines as evidence mRNA COVID-19 vaccines had not been properly evaluated. These guidelines do not apply to the mRNA vaccines.
FactCheck.org says: Court documents that include names of people associated Jeffrey Epstein are being unsealed, but Jimmy Kimmel has not been implicated.
FactCheck.org says: Democrats' support to send the impeachment resolution to committee was to prevent an immediate vote on the floor to impeach Mayorkas.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence for the claim in the social media posts that the deadly shooting in Perry, Iowa, involved or was planned by anyone other than the alleged teenage gunman.
FactCheck.org says: DeSantis didn’t say that. That quote is from the website of Enterprise Florida Inc., a quasi-government agency in Florida that is no longer active.
FactCheck.org says: A digitally manipulated image purporting to show Vice President Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein is circulating online. The original photo showed Harris with her husband, Douglas Emhoff.
FactCheck.org says: According to studies, the median survival time for the condition among babies born alive was four to 14.5 days, and just 5.6% to 8.4% of those born alive lived to their 1st birthday.
FactCheck.org says: Posts may give the misleading impression that COVID-19 vaccines were demonstrated to cause a new syndrome. In fact, a preprint described symptoms self-reported after COVID-19 vaccination in a non-representative group.
FactCheck.org says: The New Zealand data can't be used to make causal claims about the vaccines, and the methods of the analysis are flawed and based on invalid assumptions.
FactCheck.org says: Lia Thomas, who got attention as a transgender member of a women’s swimming team, is no longer on the school team. But claims about her persist, including one recent falsehood, claiming that she joined a men’s team.
FactCheck.org says: Hunter Biden’s attorney said the payments — which totaled a little over $4,000 — simply reflect Hunter Biden repaying his father, who bought him a truck while Hunter was in the throes of drug and alcohol addiction.
FactCheck.org says: Army cadets cheered during the Army-Navy football game. It was captured in a video. Versions of the video on social media have been dubbed over to falsely claim that the cadets were chanting "f— Joe Biden." They weren't.
FactCheck.org says: The rate was below 4% for 27 straight months from late 1967 to early 1970, and for 35 straight months from 1951 to 1953.
FactCheck.org says: People who receive some vaccines that use live weakened viruses to stimulate a strong and lasting immune response sometimes release small amounts of those viruses outside of their bodies. That’s expected.
FactCheck.org says: Austin reportedly told House members that failure to provide more aid for Ukraine could lead to Russia’s invasion of a NATO ally and a direct U.S. military response in accordance with the NATO treaty.
FactCheck.org says: Haley has said children should not be allowed to undergo a “gender-changing procedure” until they are at least 18 years old.
FactCheck.org says: Health experts say the illnesses are likely due to known viruses and bacteria and aren’t unexpected.
FactCheck.org says: That worst-case-scenario figure is based on Trump not replacing the ACA with anything. He says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.
FactCheck.org says: News reports say many of the Israelis returned malnourished, injured and traumatized.