CBS News attempted to pass a photo taken in Ukraine in 2016 as a photo of an American child with a coronavirus-related disease in 2020.
On May 24, 2020, the notoriously unreliable Gateway Pundit online page published an article stating that a CBS Evening News report on a “mysterious disease with a similar probability to COVID-19” affecting youth in New York domain misrepresented a 2016 photograph of a Ukrainian Child with Coxsackie virus infection :
Gateway Pundit’s statement was completely wrong. The photograph that the site claimed was a 2016 photo of a baby in Ukraine suffering from Coxsackie virus infection had actually been posted online several years earlier, in a 2009 blog post on steroid use in the remedy of children with Kawasaki disease. This photo was not taken in 2016, and the blog post in which it gave the impression did not refer to Ukraine or the coxsackiev virus:
Moreover, the CBS News report did not in any way make deceptive use of this image by wrongly presenting it as a picture of a child being treated in New York City in 2020, as Gateway Pundit falsely suggested. The report simply used the photograph as a visual example of what Kawasaki symptoms look like by briefly displaying it while the narrator mentioned that the unknown illness currently “putting otherwise healthy children in the hospital” in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic “resembles Kawasaki disease”:
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