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Former Business Manager William L. Pollack ’78 recalls, “She was one of those people who lived at The Crimson…I never quite figured...
...Jianlun, who, it turns out, had SARS. After her return to Toronto on Feb. 23, Kwan passed the disease to members of her family, including her son Tse. At Scarborough Grace, he was placed in a corner bed of the E.R.'s observation ward. Next to him was Joseph Pollack, 76, who had been complaining of an irregular heartbeat. That night Pollack almost certainly got SARS, as did another man in the room, a coronary patient whom authorities refer to as Mr. D., 77. Both Pollack and Mr. D. would infect many others...
...there had been, Pollack and Mr. D. might have been treated differently. After leaving the hospital, Mr. D. returned to Scarborough Grace complaining of shortness of breath. He probably had SARS by then, but because no one had connected him to Tse, he was sent to cardiac care before being transferred to York Central Hospital, north of Toronto. Mr. D. was finally linked to SARS on March 28, the day before he died. York Central was then shut down, and more than 3,000 staff members, patients and visitors were isolated. "In hindsight," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a Toronto infectious...
...Pollack was found when authorities started to trace people who may have been exposed to Tse. By that time he was already on his way back to Scarborough Grace with a burning fever. Pollack was isolated, but the E.R. staff apparently didn't check his wife Rose, 73. She was getting sick too. (Both would soon die from SARS.) When she took her husband into the E.R.'s waiting room, she sat near a man who was accompanied by two sons; all three were members of the 500-strong Toronto chapter of a largely Filipino Roman Catholic group, the Bukas...
...Bush Administration has seemed to hurtle thoughtlessly toward this moment of truth, in a lather of righteous arrogance and dim-witted machismo. From the start of his Administration, the President has made clear his skepticism about diplomatic niceties. "We've scared the bejeezus out of the world," says Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA and National Security Council Middle East expert, whose book The Threatening Storm: The Case for War Against Iraq is often cited by the Administration's hawks. "We've left the impression that Iraq is, as Richard Perle has said, 'the first of many' American military campaigns...