Following the advice of your healthcare provider is generally good idea during a pandemic. But that doesn’t mean your local hospital’s social media account won’t lead you astray.

Hundreds of Marylanders stood on the sidewalk along Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda — not always socially distanced — for nothing, thanks to bad information from local Suburban Hospital.

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