Correction: Twitter and Facebook posts about COVID-19 are less likely to spread misinformation compared to other health topics.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.

Adverse perinatal outcomes in a large United States birth cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on adverse perinatal outcomes remains unclear.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether COVID-19 is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes in a large national dataset and to examine the rates of adverse outcomes during the pandemic compared with the rates of adverse outcomes during the prepandemic period.

Study Design: This observational cohort study included 683,905 patients, between the ages of 12 and 50, hospitalized for childbirth and abortion between January 1, 2019, and May 31, 2021.

Twitter and Facebook posts about COVID-19 are less likely to spread misinformation compared to other health topics.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread attention to an "infodemic" of potential health misinformation. This claim has not been assessed based on evidence. We evaluated if health misinformation became more common during the pandemic.