A Tragedy is Unfolding

The New York Times ^ | April 9, 2020 | Annie Correal and Andrew Jacobs

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Anil Subba, a Nepali Uber driver from Jackson Heights, Queens, died just hours after doctors at Elmhurst Hospital thought he might be strong enough to be removed from a ventilator.

In the nearby Corona neighborhood, Edison Forero, 44, a restaurant worker from Colombia, was still burning with fever when his housemate demanded he leave his rented room, he said.

Not far away in Jackson Heights, Raziah Begum, a widow and nanny from Bangladesh, worries she will be ill soon. Two of her three roommates already have the symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Everyone in the apartment is jobless, and they eat one meal a day, she said.

“We are so hungry, but I am more terrified that I will get sick,” said Ms. Begum, 53, who has diabetes and high blood pressure.

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[Jim Noble]

I have treated all my COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine for two months.

What are the huge monetary incentives to not do that? Have I been missing something?

[brianr10]

I thought sherpas had great lungs from th high altitude.

[trebb]

And in alleys in NYC, Chicago, Baltimore, and numerous other places, a thug with a gun, pistol whips and/or shoots an innocent person to rob him/her...yada yada yada...life can be tough - in fact one sage person told us not to handicap our kids by making their lives too easy...maybe that person should be shot....