News Outlet Corrects False Claim That Thousands of Kids Hospitalized With COVID-19 in 1 Week

A construction crew works to set up tents that hospital officials plan to use with an overflow of COVID-19 patients outside of Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 9, 2021, in Houston. Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP

A Texas news outlet on Thursday issued a correction after falsely reporting that thousands of children were hospitalized in the state in a single week with COVID-19.

The Texas Tribune claimed that over 5,800 children were hospitalized during one week in August. The outlet cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in making the claim.