Word: postalization
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...confirmed that two New Jersey postal workers, one from Hamilton, had been infected with anthrax. Gilmore knew from sources at Hamilton's Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital that there was not enough Cipro on hand to treat hundreds of postal workers and that many area pharmacies had run out. When he found out that state officials were planning to advise all Hamilton postal workers to contact their doctors and seek antibiotics, he was appalled. "The decision is made that they have to start a seven-day prescription of Cipro to maybe save their lives," he said. "But they're told...
...arrived back in Hamilton just as a news conference was being held to announce another case of anthrax. Knowing that the local hospital now had a stash on hand, Gilmore stepped to the microphone and told workers they could get free treatment in his township. Some 1,500 postal workers have since gone to Robert Wood Johnson for their Cipro. When the initial supply ran out on Tuesday, Senator Robert Torricelli helped speed a new shipment from the CDC. Gilmore and postal officials insisted late last week that the operation had been a team effort. Still, it was the mayor...
...Cincinnati, Ohio, defense attorney Martin Pinales says he's going slow on a fraud case because, in these anthrax days, the postal-inspector witnesses against his client may have extra credibility. The halo effect may even reach to cases in which police are defendants. Robert Jorg is on trial in Cincinnati for the choke-hold death of a 29-year-old black man. The case is proceeding as planned, but prosecutor Mike Allen is worried his chances of winning may have declined. "It's always hard to win a conviction against a police officer," he says. "It's going...
...everybody finds himself caught on the frontlines. The Commander in Chief alternated between private briefings on the progress in Kandahar and public statements that "I don't have anthrax." Vice President Dick Cheney was coordinating the battle and learning that his key staff members were on Cipro. When two postal workers died, Bush privately told people that he considered them casualties of war, just like the Rangers who had perished in Pakistan a few days before. Both wars became simultaneously more difficult and more disturbing, as the generals acknowledged that the Taliban was a tougher enemy than they had thought...
...Just days after the White House accused the press corps of overplaying the anthrax story, the deadly germ had penetrated every branch of government, from the Vice President's mechanical letter opener to the postal facilities serving the CIA, the Supreme Court, the State Department and, of course, the White House and Congress. When D.C. mail clerk Joseph Curseen arrived at the hospital on Sunday with "the flu," he was sent home with stomach medicine and died the next day. Investigators who had swabbed down his post office hadn't told anybody to get tested or treated and hadn...