2 months ago this would have merited very little news coverge at all.
A news progarm on the radio played a statement by the hospital spokesman that claimed that the man was in respiratory distress ( already having SEVERE problems breathing) the day he was admitted. The next morning he went into renal (kidney) failure. By later that day, despite dialysis, he was terminal.
The biggest challenge in treating anthrax is that by the time people seek treatment they are already too late.
What is most fishy here is people so starved for a conspiracy that they are using the lack of evidence as evidence of conspiracy.