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Apr 30, 2021
GIRARD Charles Edward Hopper Jr., 49, of Girard, died Saturday morning, April 24, 2021, following a trucking accident near Harrisburg, Pa.
Charles Edward, known as Eddie, was born May 5, 1971, in Youngstown, a son of Charles Edward and Helen Eva Greathouse Hopper Sr., and was a lifelong area resident.
He graduated from Girard High School and Trumbull County Joint Vocational School in 1989. Following graduation, Eddie started out working as a printer for Piper Printing in Canfield. Eddie then became a truck driver for several different local trucking companies including J.B. Hunter, where he was a driver trainer and was currently working for Estes Express Lines in West Middlesex, Pa. He enjoyed spending time with his family, especially taking them fishing and camping.
Dallas-based Med-Thrive called out by FTC for ‘deceptive’ marketing of IV treatment for COVID-19
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is warning companies they are in violation a new COVID-19-related consumer protection law.
The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington.((AP Photo / Alex Brandon, File))
3:58 PM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT
Dallas-based hydration therapy facility Med-Thrive has been warned by federal regulators that its marketing practices violated a new consumer protection law aimed at companies that “exploit the pandemic.”
The business promoted intravenous therapy as well as vitamin injections, saying that COVID patients “who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C,” according to the warning letter sent by the Federal Trade Commission.