Claim: Posts shared more than 20,000 times on Facebook feature a photo of a crying child and two others showing a woman and a man in hospital beds, claiming that the boy's parents are infected with the novel coronavirus. This is false, the pictures do not depict a family and circulated online prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fact-check: Photos of vaping illness patients used to make false COVID-19 claim
Verdict: false
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-04-02T20:38:00