July 20, 2020 | 5:53pm A 13-year-old California boy died after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, despite testing negative for the disease about a week earlier, according to reports. Maxx Cheng — a swimmer with big dreams of going to the Olympics — began to feel sick on the Fourth of July with symptoms including nausea, vomiting…
AT 6:00. DEIRDRE: GOOD MORNING. I AM DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. TY: I AM TY STEELE. TEO TORRES AND TONI VALLIERE ARE BOTH WORKING FROM HOME AND WE WILL CHECK IN WITH THEM LATER. TAKING A LOOK AT HOSPITALIZATIONS, THE DARK BLUE LINE SHOWS HOSPITALIZATION STATEWIDE OVER THE LAST MONTH. THAT NUMBER HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN…
With the coronavirus death toll in California jumping past 7,000 and cases continuing to surge, more parts of the state are rolling back reopening plans as they try desperately to slow outbreaks and prevent more hospitals from hitting capacity.California has seen coronavirus cases and hospitalizations skyrocket in the last month as the economy has reopened…
The disease investigators arrived at the apartment in street clothes, carrying their gowns, gloves and face shields in Whole Foods bags. They didn’t knock on the door. Instead, they called the resident — a man in his 50s, then California’s first known coronavirus case — by phone.When he answered, he was instructed to move to…
The coronavirus crisis nationwide is not only deepening, it is growing more deadly. The country's three biggest states — California, Florida and Texas — are reporting their largest single-day death tolls since the pandemic began.Hospitals there are struggling to keep up with an exploding number of patients. And in Arizona, where about 1 in every…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an end to a dual outbreak of E. coli and Salmonella traced to alfalfa sprouts and the seeds used to grow them. The outbreak traced to Everything Sprouts of Minneapolis, MN, and Berlin Seeds of Millersburg, OH, was unusual because it included more than one pathogen
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based