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Posted by: Charon - 09-07-2023, 01:46 AM - Forum: World News
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Passenger’s diarrhea forces emergency landing for Delta flight to Barcelona
FILE - A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 takes off from Lisbon airport, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)
Armando Franca FILE – A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 takes off from Lisbon airport, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)
By EVAN ROSEN | erosen@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News
September 6, 2023 at 11:58 a.m.
An incident involving “diarrhea all the way through the airplane” caused a Delta Air Lines flight to Barcelona to make an emergency landing last week.
The Airbus A350 was forced to fly back to its location of departure at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport approximately two hours after takeoff, according to the flight-tracking site FlightAware.com.
The issue was reportedly a potential biohazard for those on board, and a spokesperson for the airline published a statement Tuesday evening seeming to confirm the report.
“Delta flight 194 on Sept. 1 from Atlanta to Barcelona returned to Atlanta following an onboard medical issue,” the statement read.
“Our teams worked as quickly and as safely as possible to get our customers to their final destinations. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans,” the spokesperson continued.
The flight was reportedly delayed over eight hours but did ultimately make the trip to Barcelona, arriving a little after 5:00 p.m. local time on Saturday without further incident, reports CNN.
An audio recording of the pilot informing air traffic control of the diarrhea issue was captured by LiveATC.net and later shared by multiple users on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“This is a biohazard issue,” the pilot says during the recording. “We’ve had a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta.”
A video showing the mess in the aisle was also later shared on X, by a user named Xansby Swanson, who claimed that his brother was on the now-infamous flight.
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Posted by: Charon - 09-06-2023, 10:20 PM - Forum: World News
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BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS IS THE WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIS POLICIES CONTINUE TO MAKE IT WORSE
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. Under Joe Biden, America is facing the worst border crisis in our history.
2. President Biden has undermined America’s border security and the integrity of our immigration
system at every turn.
3. Biden’s border policies are creating a growing national security crisis, and threatening the safety of
Americans across the country.
OVERVIEW: BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS
A. America is facing a historic crisis at its southern border under President Biden.
Under Biden’s immigration policies, illegal border crossings have soared to all-time highs.
• In Fiscal Year 2021 alone, U.S. Customs and Border Protection experienced 1.7 million encounters
with aliens at the southern border, the highest number ever recorded in a single year.
• That number does not include people who evaded border patrol officers.
o According to the internal Border Patrol estimates from January through August of 2021, more
than 273,000 migrants avoided apprehension and entered our country illegally.
o These are new records.
Fiscal Year 2022 is already sharply outpacing 2021’s record-breaking numbers.
• U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz anticipates in the next few days, the U.S. will hit one million
encounters with migrants attempting to illegally cross our Southern border since October 1.
• That’s one million encounters in the last six months, outpacing last year’s record-breaking numbers.
• Last month, CBP encountered nearly 165,000 illegal immigrants at the border.
o That was the highest total for February in the Department of Homeland Security’s history.
• For the last 12 months in a row, there have been over 150,000 encounters at the Southern border;
eight of which broke records.
B. With Title 42 ending, Biden officials warn: a border surge is coming.
Biden’s own officials are warning the crisis at the Southern Border will get worse as Title 42 expires.
• DHS Office of Intelligence anticipates as many as 1 million immigrants could cross the Southern
Border in 6 weeks if the Biden administration rescinds Title 42 in April.
o Department of Homeland Security intelligence estimates 25,000 migrants are already in
Mexican shelters just south of the border, waiting for Title 42 to end.
o The number of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico is already rising, as
migrants and cartels that smuggle people into the U.S. anticipate the coming change in policy.
o "Intel stats [show that] there are tens of thousands just waiting in Mexico for it to end. [Border
Patrol] capacity will be reached in a few days and we will be forced to release subjects on the
street," a senior Border Patrol official wrote. "This will cause even more to flood across the border.
We will see something we have never seen before. The border will be open for narcotics to cross
since everyone will be processing."
• Even Democrat Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema are telling President Biden not to end Title
42, writing: “we urge you to continue providing additional border management and security resources
to Arizona so that our border communities do not have to bear any unnecessary burdens from Title
42 changes.”
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2. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS UNDERMINED AMERICA’S BORDER
SECURITY AND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM AT EVERY TURN.
A. Biden created this border crisis.
In Biden’s first 100 days in office, he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration. Those
actions included:
1. Stopping the construction of the border wall.
2. Attempting to halt deportations for 100 days.
3. Suspending new enrollments in Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, aka “Remain in Mexico”).
4. Terminating Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACAs) with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
5. Ending Prompt Asylum Case Review (PACR) for non-Mexicans, and Humanitarian Asylum Review
Program (HARP), for Mexicans.
Now he’s going even further.
B. Right now, the Biden administration is actively eliminating almost every tool America has
to secure our Southern border in the face of the worst border crisis in U.S. history.
1. Biden’s new FY2023 budget proposes cutting border security funding.
2. He’s ending Title 42.
3. He’s fighting to end “Remain in Mexico” at the Supreme Court.
4. He’s giving USCIS officials the authority to grant asylum to migrants who cross the border without an
immigration court/judge reviewing that claim.
a. This will likely lead to an increase in granting asylum to individuals with frivolous claims.
b. Migrants who have their claim denied will still be allowed to appeal that decision to an
immigration court and remain in the U.S. while the appeal is pending.
5. He’s undermining immigration enforcement (ICE) in America with a flurry of bad policies, including:
a. Rolling back the scope of DHS’s expedited removal authority.
b. Limiting ICE’s immigration enforcement activities.
i. In early March, the Biden administration released FY2021 ICE enforcement data after
months of delaying the annual, public-facing report.
ii. The report revealed the lowest number of removals and arrests in the history of ICE, while
still omitting standard data that is generally included this annual report.
iii. One ICE officer called the arrest and removal numbers “an acknowledgment that ICE
officials are being paid not to do their job.”
iv. Under Biden, ICE:
1. Arrested 48% fewer convicted criminals
2. Deported 63% fewer criminals; and
3. Issued 46% fewer ‘detainer requests to other’ law enforcement agencies” in FY
2021 compared to FY 2020.
4. On deportations, ERO recorded “just 39,149 convicts removed in 2021 — down
62% compared to 2020, when 103,762 convicts were ousted, and far below the
pre-COVID rate of 2019, when 150,141 convicts were removed.”
v. It’s little surprise the Biden administration was slow to release the FY2021 ICE ERO report.
1. Deportations have dropped by 70 percent since the pandemic.
2. ICE agents are averaging fewer than one arrest per month.
These policy changes will be detrimental to America’s border security. (See below)
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3. BIDEN’S BORDER POLICIES ARE CREATING A GROWING NATIONAL SECURITY
CRISIS, THREATENING THE SAFETY OF AND HURTING AMERICANS
A. This administration’s open border policies are fueling criminal activity and abuses by
cartels facilitating illegal border crossings.
According to a 2020 report from Doctors Without Borders: Over 57% of interviewed migrants and
asylum seekers (attempting to cross the Southern border illegally) experienced some type of violence,
including cases of assault, extortion, torture, and sexual assault.
• These crimes are devastating and directly result from the administration’s signal to the world that
our nation’s borders are open.
B. Ending Title 42 knowing it will lead to a surge of illegal immigration that overwhelms
America’s border enforcement.
Border surges swamp CBP’s ability to process, transport, and care for those aliens, let alone perform
its other duties like stopping drugs and terrorists at the border.
• In February, 634 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 12,500 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at
the border. This is enough to kill every man, woman, and child in this country.
• Since October, the El Paso sector has encountered more than 240 illegal immigrants with criminal
and gang affiliations.
C. Changing America’s standards for granting asylum to those illegally entering the U.S.
undermines America’s immigration laws and standards.
Right now, Biden is creating a program that will result in a rubber stamp for often frivolous asylum
claims made by illegal immigrants at the border.
• This will make it possible for many illegal immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally with questionable
asylym claims to gain a green card within a year of illegally entering the U.S., without any court date
or hearing before an immigration judge.
• Under this program, USCIS officials will have the authority to grant asylum status (and thus an
eventual path to citizenship) to migrants who illegally cross the border and assert a claim for asylum.
D. Limiting immigration enforcement in America undermines public safety.
The Biden administration has intentionally limited immigration enforcement in America, leading to
record-low immigration enforcement in the last year.
o ICE arrests of illegal aliens in 2021 for crimes including homicide-related offenses, sexual
assaults, robberies, and kidnappings were all down significantly from the previous two years.
o Another alarming revelation in the report is "34 [deported criminals] were designated as known
or suspected terrorists."
• Ending Border enforcement programs puts unaccompanied children at risk; the Biden
administration has lost nearly 20,000 of these kids.
o Customs and Border Patrol is on track to apprehend more than 150,000 kids in FY 2022.
o These children have been released into the United States with limited oversight.
o HHS recently revealed that it has been unable to get in touch with nearly 20,000 sponsors to
whom it had released UACs.
o When the Trump administration had the same issue (on less than a tenth of scale) in 2018, USA
Today trumpeted the headline: “The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children.” Biden has
lost more than 10 times that number of children—with no media outrage.
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E. Ending the “Remain in Mexico” program empowers cartels to continue drug trafficking and
human smuggling.
On April 26th, the Biden administration will argue before the Supreme Court to end America’s “Remain
in Mexico” (Migrant Protection Protocol program).
• This is a Trump-era program requiring those who illegally cross America’s southern border and
claiming asylum to wait in Mexico for decisions in their U.S. immigration cases.
• Testifying before Congress on the importance of Remain in Mexico, a DHS official told lawmakers:
o “Policies like MPP and Title 42 kept the situation at the border under control.”
o “Biden administration’s reversal of these policies chipped away at the progress made securing
the border under the previous administration to make a political statement while putting public
safety at risk.”
• The Biden administration has already attempted to end the “Remain in Mexico” once and is only
implementing a scaled-down version of the program now because it is under a court order to do so.
• It is this order that the administration is in the process of appealing.
Ending this program puts migrant families at risk of being exploited by cartels.
• Cartels earn up to $6 billion a year from smuggling migrants into the U.S., according to John Condon,
a senior DHS official, who appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee’s oversight
subcommittee.
• Testifying before Congress a DHS official from Arizona told lawmakers:
o “Transnational criminal organizations routinely treat vulnerable humans as transactional and
reusable goods. Therefore, having a patchworked and mismanaged approach to border security
policy, including MPP, is not only insufficient but irresponsible.
o “The temporary repeal of MPP and similar policies have put vulnerable children in danger.
o “One family spent six hours in a storm on a small boat, with kids getting horribly sick. The family
was kidnapped by a drug cartel and forced to pay a ransom to live during the journey.”
F. Weak enforcement of America’s Southern border will further the drug overdose and
fentanyl crisis in the U.S.
Drug overdose deaths, fueled by fentanyl, hit a record high in the U.S. last year.
• Over 104,000 Americans died from drug overdoses over a the 12-month period ending in September
2021, the highest ever recorded, according to CDC data.
• This is the sharpest annual increase in overdose deaths in at least three decades; driven by the
proliferation of fentanyl.
• Overdoses from fentanyl have become the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45.
Fentanyl is often made by cartels in Mexico with chemicals from China, according to the DEA.
• In FY2021 CBP seized over 10,500 pounds (a record amount) of fentanyl coming through the U.S.
Southern border. A lethal dose of fentanyl is 2mg.
• “The federal government estimates that one kilogram of fentanyl is equivalent to
500,000 lethal doses, making last year's seizure equal to 2.5 billion fatal doses.”
In January 2021, CBP reported a "substantial increase" in fentanyl seizures at the southern border
with 839 lbs seized compared to 682 lbs in FY 2021.
• So far, CBP has seized over 3,900 pounds of fentanyl at the Southern border in FY22, nearly
matching pace with the amounts seized in FY2021.
Fentanyl is so dangerous that now, a bipartisan group of former senior national security officials is
urging Biden to declare fentanyl and its chemical analogues “weapons of mass destruction.”
• Cartels are bringing these drugs across our border every day.
• They don’t stay on the border. Every state in the Union has experienced deaths from these drugs.
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Posted by: Charon - 09-06-2023, 10:14 PM - Forum: World News
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POLITICS
Judge orders Texas to remove floating border barriers, granting Biden administration request
BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ
UPDATED ON: SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 / 5:30 PM / CBS NEWS
A federal judge in Austin on Wednesday ordered Texas to remove river barriers that the state assembled along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border to repel migrants, giving the Biden administration an early victory in its lawsuit against the buoys approved by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra issued a preliminary injunction directing Texas officials to remove the floating border barriers from the middle of the Rio Grande by Sept. 15, at the state's own expense. He also prohibited the state from setting up similar structures in the middle of the Rio Grande, the international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico in Texas.
In his opinion, Ezra found that Texas' buoys obstructed free navigation in the Rio Grande, in violation of a longstanding law governing waterways controlled by the federal government. Texas, he concluded, needed to obtain permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency, to place the barriers in the river.
Ezra noted he was directing Texas state officials to remove the floating barriers from the middle of the Rio Grande by moving them to the riverbank on the U.S. side, rather than ordering its "removal entirely from the river."
The Biden administration filed its lawsuit against the floating barriers in late July, arguing that Texas needed permission from the federal government to set up the buoys, and that the state had failed to acquire it. The administration also said the structures impeded Border Patrol agents from patrolling the border, endangered migrants and hurt U.S.-Mexico relations.
Buoy barriers are installed and situated in the middle of the Rio Grande river on July 18, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Buoy barriers are installed and situated in the middle of the Rio Grande river on July 18, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES
Ezra agreed with the administration's arguments. "To the extent that further findings are required, the Court also finds that Texas's conduct irreparably harms the public safety, navigation, and the operations of federal agency officials in and around the Rio Grande," he wrote in his ruling.
In a statement, Abbott's office said Texas would appeal the ruling. "Today's court decision merely prolongs President Biden's willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along. This ruling is incorrect and will be overturned on appeal," the office said.
Last month, Texas repositioned the buoys closer to American soil after federal officials disclosed a joint U.S.-Mexico survey that concluded that roughly 80% of the barriers had been set up in Mexican territory. Mexico's government has vocally denounced the buoys, saying they violate the country's sovereignty.
While Abbott and other Texas officials have said the river barriers are designed to discourage migrants from attempting to enter the U.S. unlawfully and unsafely, human rights activists, Democratic lawmakers and a Texas state medic have raised concerns about the structures forcing migrants to swim across deepers parts of the Rio Grande where the risk of drowning is greater.
The legal fight over the buoys has become the latest flash point in a two-year political feud between the Biden administration and Abbott, who has accused the federal government of not doing enough to deter migrants from crossing the southern border illegally.
As part of a state border initiative, dubbed Operation Lone Star, Abbott has directed National Guard units to impede the entry of migrants through the use of razor wire. The state's Department of Public Safety, for its part, has been instructed to arrest and jail migrant adults on state trespassing charges.
The most high-profile component of Abbott's operation has been an effort to bus thousands of migrants from the southern border to large Democratic-led cities like New York, Chicago and Denver, which now find themselves struggling to house destitute newcomers who lack ties to the U.S.
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Posted by: IceWizard - 09-06-2023, 11:10 AM - Forum: World News
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‘Disturbing’ California Biolab Shrouded
in Mystery As China Links Emerge
A California-based medical supply firm has come under scrutiny over suspected ties to China
and the discovery of an underground biolab in Reedley, California.
The Universal Meditech Inc. lab was found to contain various infectious agents, raising concerns
among local officials and prompting investigations by multiple governmental agencies,
according to a Fox News report.
According to court documents, city officials inspected 850 I St. March 3 for building violations
and found various chemicals being stored.
A March 16 inspection by county public health officials allegedly discovered medical devices
thought to have been developed on-site, such as COVID and pregnancy tests.
“Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various
apparatus,” court documents said.
“Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples
and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.”
The biolab, located in a previously vacant warehouse in Reedley, was discovered last year,
the Fox report noted.
Investigators determined the building’s tenant was Prestige Biotech, a Nevada-based company
not licensed for business in California, according to an NBC News report.
City officials communicated through email with Prestige Biotech president Xiuquin Yao,
the NBC report noted.
Yao reportedly told officials Prestige Biotech transferred assets of the defunct company,
Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under.
Prestige Biotech was a UMI creditor, identified as its successor, according to court documents.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation identified 20 different infectious
agents inside the building, including tuberculosis, dengue, HIV, COVID-19 and malaria,
according to the report.
The CDC also highlighted unsanitary lab conditions of the lab such as old equipment,
poor storage and dead mice found on the premises, the Fox report noted.
“We don’t have all the answers of what was happening in this lab,”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) commented. “This is very disturbing.”
When local code enforcement officers inspected the facility in March, UMI staff claimed they
were producing COVID-19 and pregnancy tests.
The alleged presence of potentially deadly agents in the lab raised questions that neither the
Fresno County Department of Health nor other officials could answer, the report noted.
The CDC also noted a lack of cooperation from UMI and its successor, Prestige Biotech,
according to the report.
“Prestige Biotech or various owners of the materials present in the warehouse have yet to
cooperate with document requests from multiple partner agencies fully,” the CDC stated.
Further investigations into UMI’s operations in Fresno revealed allegations of the company
violating federal safety regulations, misleading clients about their COVID-19 test kits, and
evading legal responsibilities. Jeff Johnston, CEO of Louisiana-based CovidScan, shared his
experience with UMI, describing the company’s operations during the pandemic as “a lot of
smoke and mirrors.” He also expressed doubts about the actual origin of the test kits, suspecting
they were produced in China.
Shipping records provided by ImportGenius showed that UMI/Prestige received at least
16 shipments from China in recent years, according to the Fox News report.
Contents of the shipments, which ended up in Fresno, included items like pregnancy tests and
cleaning agents.
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Posted by: IceWizard - 09-06-2023, 10:59 AM - Forum: World News
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Federal Judges Rules Doctors Can Continue
Lawsuit Against FDA Over Ivermectin
In a recent legal development, federal judges have permitted a group of doctors to continue their
lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the use of ivermectin.
On Monday, an appeals court overturned the ruling of a federal judge, who had blocked the team
of physicians from moving forward with their case.
At the heart is the FDA’s reliance on administrators rather than physicians in establishing practices
and guidelines regarding the medical treatment.
One of the main points is whether or not the government has the authority to order a physician
not to prescribe ivermectin and other approved drugs to battle COVID.
The lack of peer-reviewed studies regarding vaccine efficacy and safety are peripheral elements
of the case.
On Monday, the panel of appeals court judges sided with the physicians, in effect, ruling that
government administrators should not bypass recommendations from physicians when making
medical decisions.
The team of doctors that brought forward the suit is suing the Department of Health and
Human Services, the FDA, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf
are also named in the suit.
The suit claims the physician’s practices and reputations were harmed due to the FDA’s guidelines
and restrictions regarding ivermectin.
Appeals Court Judge Don Willett drafted the ruling:
“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise — but not to
endorse, denounce, or advise,” wrote Willett. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts
fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”
The Daily Wire reported that the ruling also noted how many mainline media sites amplified
the government’s narrative regarding COVID-19 protocol and treatment.
“The messaging traveled widely across legacy and online media. Left unmentioned in most of
that messaging: ivermectin also comes in a human version. And while the human version is
not FDA-approved to treat the coronavirus, some people were using it off-label for that purpose,”
Willett said.
““Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority,”
the ruling said.
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, who was suspended from Houston Methodist Hospital for opposing
vaccine mandates and advocating the use of ivermectin, was one of the physicians bringing
forward the suit. Bowden wrote:
“A small win, or at least a step forward, in a monumental battle to protect the doctor-patient
relationship from government tyranny. ONWARD!”
The case underscores broader discussions surrounding the FDA’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
It points to a potential pattern of the FDA sidestepping conventional protocols in the face of the
global pandemic.
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Posted by: Charon - 09-05-2023, 11:52 PM - Forum: World News
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14-year-old died from One Chip Challenge after passing out, family claims, after boy was sent home from school with stomachache
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A Worcester, Massachusetts, boy died in a hospital from what family have alleged was complications from eating an extremely spicy chip branded as the One Chip Challenge.
A viral internet trend in which participants are challenged to eat an incredibly spicy tortilla chip without drinking or eating anything for relief is accused of being the cause of death for a 14-year-old boy who ate the chip at school, according to NBC10 Boston.
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Harris Wolobah's mother said she believed the teenager died from complications from the tortilla chip and that the school should have sent him to the hospital instead of home.
The sophomore was confirmed by a Worcester Public Schools spokesman to have visited the nurse's office because he felt sick, and he was sent home with family after parents were called that day.
The boy's mother said her son told her that a classmate gave him the chip, which gave him a bad stomachache.
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After returning home, the teen reportedly felt better, but passed out in the late afternoon before he left for basketball tryouts. Wolobah's brother discovered him unconscious, and he was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The boy's official cause of death has not been confirmed, and the autopsy has not yet been completed. Police and officials did not share any additional information information. Police were reportedly investigating but didn't say whether any criminal activity was involved in the case.
The 2023 version of the chip, which is made by Paqui, is listed as containing "Carolina Reaper" pepper and "Naga Viper Pepper," although it is not known whether that was the exact version that was eaten.
On the company's website, Paqui lists warnings such as "keep out of reach from children," "Intended for adult consumption," "Do not eat if you are sensitive to spicy foods, allergic to peppers," and more.
The school district did not respond to request for comment regarding why the boy was sent home as opposed to the hospital or whether the district will take any action regarding the chips.
However, the district's superintendent referred to Wolobah as "a rising star" and gave condolences to his family in a statement.
"It is with a heavy heart I share that we lost a rising star, Harris Wolobah, who was a sophomore scholar at Doherty Memorial High School. As a mother and educator, I cannot imagine how hard this is on his family, friends and teachers," said Superintendent Rachel Monárrez. "My heart goes out to all who knew and loved him."
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