Here's one from Maine in marchhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/25/maine-baby-boom-nine-nurses-pregnant-same-time/3272821002/ …
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Of all the quirks about our modern digital content age, this genre of story might be among the weirdest.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/36-babies-due-to-nurses-in-childrens-mercy-intensive-care-nursery/ar-AAENZBa?OCID=ansmsnnews11 …
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And one from New York in Aprilhttps://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Pregnant-Nurses-NYU-Winthrop-Hospital-Long-Island-Baby-Boom-508161031.html …
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Ohio, again in Aprilhttps://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/11-labor-delivery-nurses-pregnant-ohio-hospital-baby/story?id=62363548 …
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Arizona, back in Septemberhttps://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180901/NEWS/180839997/baby-boom-16-nurses-pregnant-at-same-arizona-hospital …
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Granted, to the point in the story that started this thread, 36 at once is quite a lot
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Anyway, what I think probably happens is that these stories float around places like Yahoo or MSN or as a low-key human interest thing, and hospital PR people are very good at localizing to their nearby tv contacts when it happens in their hospitals.
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But because it's internet times, those local stories can become national by the click of an aggregator or a tweak of an algorithm. And so once a month an Online Person is confronted with this very same story, with the particulars swapped around. Forever.
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The picture is also weirdly obviously photoshopped
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