Advocates call on secretaries, janitors, students to sign-up for 9/11 compensation
9/11 survivor and community advocate speak on first-responders funding bill UP NEXT Diana Vizcarra worked a few blocks from the World Trade Center and survived the terror attack of Sept. 11, 2001, without major immediate injuries but things changed in 2014, according to her husband. A rough cough that would not go away was eventually diagnosed as stage 4 lung cancer, and in 2015, Diana Vizcarra died. This was not a normal cancer, the doctors said, Rolando Vizcarra, a Brooklyn native and now Florida resident told ABC News. There was no history of family cancer, she was a healthy person, never smoked, no drugs. A doctor later said it was from Ground Zero.
Victims of 9/11-related illnesses urged to register for compensation as deadline looms
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Advocates call on secretaries, janitors, students to sign-up for 9/11 compensation
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Palmer has seen the damage COVID can cause in someone with 9/11-related illnesses.
Palmer said a friend who was part of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit is still recovering after his battle with COVID-19 that landed him on a ventilator.
“Don’t you think these guys have been through enough already?” Palmer said. “All we do is fight for something we shouldn’t have to fight for.”
9/11 illnesses up COVID risk factors
Cancer and respiratory ailments are the most common illnesses among the 9/11 community, which includes first responders who were part of the rescue and recovery missions involving the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The community at risk for illness from toxic exposure also includes the office workers, students and residents who were in Lower Manhattan that day and in the weeks after.
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