Richard Sibery, Albert Petroselli, John Knox, Arthur Laker and Edward Doty were the first responders to respond to the call to die in one national tragedy only in another.
New York and the nation were hit by terrorist attacks on the 19th anniversary of Friday, September 11, 2001. Amidst the coronavirus epidemic, nearly 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, filled with dozens of such heroes who fought to save others when two towers fell. Put lives in danger.
New York City Attorney Michael Barashe used the words “grass undercount” in a recent interview in which he revealed that 22 of the 20,000 9/11 he presented in land-zero related diseases had died before 22 COVID-19.
Since then, Barashch has learned that the first responders to 9/11 died five times more from the coronavirus than they first thought.
“More than 100 of these individuals have died in Kovid-19 due to zero-related diseases,” Patrick Reume, Barash’s spokesman, said in a statement on Friday.
The many types of cancers and dozens of respiratory illnesses reported by many first responders to au / 11 left them with a unique susceptibility to diseases that attack the lungs and immune system, Reume added.
John Phil, a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero, who runs the Failgood Foundation, which advocates on behalf of the first responders, said he knew of at least four dozen people who came up with the disease and more than a thousand people who tested positive. Have done. And he is one of them.
The FLA told NBC News, “In March, we put up a video telling our people to take this seriously and then a week later I got it. “To this day, I don’t know how I got it. All I know is that I have never felt such pain before. “
Phil, who lost a part of his left leg after a 4-ton steel beam fell to his ground zero, said he felt his body catch fire and at the same time, it was so hard to breathe that he felt it Is drowning. “I’m not easily intimidated but I’m scared,” he said.
Former York City firefighter No 84x, 84, who came out of retirement to search for bodies on Ground Zero, died in March. Severi, 63, Pte EMT of Queens, who also took part in rescue and horrific recovery efforts, died in April. Laker, 72, a construction worker who worked hard in a “pit” for two years, also died in April.
Petroseli was 73 years old when he also died in April. He was the battalion chief of the New York City Fire Department on 9/11 and along with his firefighter son Albert Jr. reacted at the burning World Trade Center where his other son, a commodities trader named Mark, was trapped on the 93rd floor. Of the North Tower. They did not find Mark’s body.
The United States mourned 9/11, when the coronavirus death toll rose 1,249 to 193,186 and the number of confirmed cases reached nearly 6.5 million, both world leaders.
President Donald Trump has accused Americans of lying about the severity of the epidemic in public, while journalist Bob Woodward has privately admitted that coronaviruses are “fatal”, flying to Pennsylvania for the Flight 93 National Memorial Ceremony on Friday. .
While Trump has repeatedly praised the administration’s response to his epidemic, the United States now accounts for more than 910,000 coronavirus deaths and a fifth of the world’s 28 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Phil said he responded to George W. after 11. He consistently tried not to choose a political party when he fought to get the help of first responders with the Bush administration, and last year when he successfully lobbied Congress with comedian John Stewart to renew funding for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund.
But Phil admitted that on Friday, as Trump was leaving for Shakespeare, he threw himself into a ball of paper and threw it on a TV screen.
“The response to the epidemic by the federal government has been catastrophic, only outrageous,” Faye said. “What we’re doing with the epidemic is a great job. At the same time, we’re all bragging about how we’re normalizing the dying. We’re losing touch with humanity. We’ve failed. And I’m alone in thinking that.” Not. ”
In other coronavirus news:
- The nation’s leading infectious disease specialist and frequent Trump target, Dr. Anthony Fawcett warns that Americans need to be aware of COVID-19 as we go into flu season. While the number of new cases has been steadily declining in recent weeks, there are still new outbreaks in the country that could become more serious as the weather cools. “We need to take the hunt down and get through this fall and winter, because it won’t be easy,” Fawcett said during a panel of doctors at Harvard Medical School. Foussi has drawn Trump’s line and survived an attempt by the White House to discredit him, while he contradicted the president’s more optimistic assessment of the president’s progress.
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Toilet paper and other essentials may be at stake, but grocery prices have risen again. August was the second most expensive month for groceries this year, a little behind Matthew. The national average for a basket of 37 items reached $ 1.87878 in May, then dropped to ૧ 6.140 in June and July and reached in 18.63 in August. Why Phil Tedesco, director of retail analytics at Nielsen, told NBC News: “Promotions given to consumers are pushed below their first-covid-19 level for the fifth consecutive month.” Because this month has become more expensive than recent months. “
- The worst-affected state, Florida, is reopening on Monday with a bars of 0% capacity in most parts of Florida, where infections and mortality rates are declining, but where 166 people died and new cases were reported overnight due to Kovid-1 of. Bars in Miami-Dade County and Palm Beach County will remain closed, officials said. At Trump’s urging, Governor Ron Desantis ordered on April 29 that Florida experience an explosion of new cases and deaths when his state reopened shortly after the outbreak. When it became clear that Bars were becoming COVID-19 spreading centers, Descentis ordered them shut down on June 26. Florida, as of Friday, has reported 12,481 coronavirus deaths and 654,731 confirmed infections since the onset of the epidemic.
