(CNN) — A California family says their identities were stolen and used in a Facebook ad for a company selling a protective mask that claimed to have saved the youngest son in a family of five from Covid-19. “It was sickening and it was violating,” said Sara Ancich, 45, of Orange County after seeing the…
A New York woman with coronavirus symptoms died last week after being prescribed a drug cocktail with known cardiac side effects, and family members say she was not tested for COVID-19 or for heart problems before receiving the medication.The family’s experience suggests that at least some physicians are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin — drugs President…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A shocked mother discovered a photo of her family in a Facebook video for a face mask that claimed most of the family members pictured had died of COVID-19.The image, a professional photo of the Ancich family taken for a holiday card…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A family in Alabama said they were denied entry to a storm shelter on Easter Sunday during a severe storm because they didn't have enough face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.More than 30 people were killed in a two-day period as severe storms tore across the South, leaving 1…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two