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Meme Misleads on Hospital Visits to Children With COVID-19

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A viral meme suggests that children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. and U.K. can’t be visited by a parent. Hospital policies have become generally more restrictive, but pediatric patients are still allowed visits by at least one parent.


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A meme circulating on social media implores people to stay home in order to reduce the spread of the novel, but the alarmist claims it makes are wrong.

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