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Another COVID-19 rumor began circulating in October 2021, claiming that hospitals in the state of New York were preventing unvaccinated parents from seeing or taking home their newborn babies. A number of posts on Facebook and Instagram made the rounds, prompting our readers to send us the following claim: We reached out to the New York Department of Health about the above posts, and they flatly denied that such rules are in place. Spokesperson Abigail Barker released the following statement: New York University’s Langone Health also released a statement refuting the claims: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that newborn babies are not at high risk of contracting COVID-19, and has not prohibited parents from rooming with their baby while in the hospital: Current evidence suggests that the chance of a newborn getting COVID-19 from their birth parent is low, especially when the parent takes steps (such as wearing a mask and washing hands) to prevent spread before and during care of the newborn. Even if a new parent has COVID-19, the CDC has the following guidelines for those in the hospital with their newborn: We thus rate this claim as False.
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