Claim: Facebook posts claim a child who is infected with the novel coronavirus will be taken to a hospital unaccompanied. This is misleading; many hospitals have prohibited visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic, but even facilities in heavily-affected states have exceptions allowing a parent or caregiver to be with pediatric patients.
Fact-check: Posts claim children with COVID-19 must go to hospitals alone
Verdict: partly false
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-04-22T19:16:00