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Watch out for infodemic and misleading online content, says Tam
Canada s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, warned Canadians this week to maintain vigilance about the pandemic information they consume online as misleading content widens its reach. These platforms have contributed to an overabundance of information an infodemic that worsens the current pandemic by allowing false information to circulate more easily, hampering public health responses, creating confusion and distrust, and ultimately making it more difficult for people to make vital decisions about their health and safety, wrote Tam.
Over 11,000 tables have been recalled by Health Canada due to an electrical hazard.
The affected products were sold across Canada at Winners, Marshalls, and HomeSense from May 2019 to December 2019.
According to Health Canada, the charging receptacles or USB ports built into the side tables “may contain an electrical issue resulting in reverse polarity, posing an electric shock hazard to the consumer.”
Consumers should “immediately unplug the recalled side accent tables,” says the federal health agency. Consumers are asked to contact Jimco Lamp & Manufacturing Company for a refund or replacement product.
The company has reported that 11,070 units of the affected product were sold in Canada and 95,686 were sold in the United States.