Arizona’s Medicaid program accidentally sent emails including private health information belonging to over 3,000 Arizonans to the wrong people.In a Sept. 26 press release, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System said it sent “misaddressed member communications” to 3,177 people on Aug. 29.The data breach exposed Arizonans' names, AHCCCS identification numbers and health plan names. The letters did not include Social Security numbers, financial data or clinical information, according to the agency.AHCCCS initially indicated the breach was related to a physical mailer sent to members.In the release, the agency said it was notified of the issue "by a member who received a letter addressed to a different individual,” and that it “halted its mailing process and launched an internal investigation.”However, following inquiries from KJZZ, an AHCCCS spokesperson clarified the incident was the result of human error by AHCCCS staff as it prepared an email distribution list, not a physical mailing.“The file was processed internally by AHCCCS staff. No mail houses were involved. The breach was related to a Constant Contact email distribution,” according to a statement.The agency notified affected members after learning about the issue.“To prevent future incidents, AHCCCS has also implemented a more robust quality assurance process to strengthen safeguards around member communications,” according to the statement.In a press release, AHCCCS encouraged affected members to utilize free credit reporting services to monitor their personal information and report any suspicious activity to law enforcement and the agency. Tags News Health + Medicine

The post’s “recipe” for the phony cure includes lemon and bicarbonate — short for sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, which is commonly used as an antacid. “Mix and drink as hot tea every afternoon,” the post says. “The action of the lemon with hotter baking soda immediately kills the virus [and] completely eliminates it from the body.” This claim is baseless. According to the World Health Organization, “to date, there is no specific medicine recommended to prevent or treat the new coronavirus.” Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious diseases physician and fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, confirmed this in an interview. “There’s no data that shows using lemon juice or hot tea or anything like that would kill a virus,” she said. Angela Rogers, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, noted in an email that “there is nothing that has been shown yet to kill or eliminate COVID-19 virus, and it’s still not clear whether any other therapies in the news (steroids, targeted immune modulators, azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine) are actually helpful.” Kuppalli said people can lower their risk of contracting the virus by washing their hands, covering their coughs and sneezes, maintaining distance from each other, and following public health measures that have been implemented in their area. We’ve reported on many falsehoods and misleading statements about the new coronavirus. See “A Guide to Our Coronavirus Coverage” for stories, videos and resources.

A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors” determined to undermine faith in the integrity of next week’s presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. The announcement that the video was fake represented an effort by the FBI and other federal agencies, four days before Tuesday’s election, to combat foreign disinformation by calling it out rather than letting it spread for days unchecked. It follows a similar statement last week that also attributed to Russian actors a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania.

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