A photo circulating on social media that depicts a young boy crying as he receives a shot – while held by a smiling woman – is being linked to the death of a young boy in Great Britain.
"Helen Blythe the mother in this picture was so happy to get her baby his V," reads a Dec. 11 Facebook post. "Now he is dead. Died suddenly. It keeps happening!! Its not rare!!"
But the woman in the photo is not Blythe, nor is the boy Blythe's son. The image shows a different woman posing with her son, who is alive. The death of Blythe's son was not tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.
USA TODAY reached out to Facebook users who shared the post for comment.
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Blythe is a real person, but she and her son are not depicted in the image.
The people in the photo are Kaye Steinsapir – an attorney and wife of Michael Jackson estate lawyer Jonathan Steinsapir – and their son Eli. Kaye Steinsapir is known on social media for openly sharing her grief journey after the couple lost their daughter, Molly, in a biking accident.
Steinsapir tweeted her own debunk of the image under a different tweet taking the image out of context.
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