ProPublica (April 25) “Did I Mess This Up?” A Father Dying from Coronavirus, a Distraught Daughter and a Midnight Rescue The voice on the message started out calm but soon faltered.
Natasha Roland wanted to report what happened to her father at the Queens Adult Care Center, a home for some 350 low-income elderly and mentally ill adults that I’d described as an epidemiologist’s nightmare in a story the previous week. “They had been telling me since March that they didn’t have any virus cases,” Roland said, her words quickening. “They were telling me that my father was OK.