Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
35%
6 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Health
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A downtown San Francisco strip club is now part of a public health investigation over a spread of tuberculosis, a potentially deadly bacterial disease, the city’s public health authorities told NBC Bay Area.
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authorities → tell → Area
The San Francisco Department of Public Health said it’s looking into two confirmed cases at The Crazy Horse, a strip club on Market Street that’s been run for more than three decades.
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that → say → decades
The first confirmed case was in early October, the department said, after which it began efforts to trace who else may have been infected.
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who → confirm → efforts
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Sign → sign → California
“These efforts are ongoing and at this time, the risk to the general public is low,” the department said in a statement.
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department → say → statement
“If this status changes, we will let the public know.”
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public → change → ?
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease, which typically attacks the lungs, that appears in both active and latent forms.
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that → attack → forms
The disease may stay hidden for a while with no symptoms until it turns contagious and serious.
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it → stay → symptoms
Symptoms of tuberculosis can include coughing up blood, a cough lasting more than three weeks, fatigue, and unintentional weight loss.
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Symptoms → include → blood
Contracting it requires prolonged exposure to a contagious person.
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Contracting → contract → person
The bacteria is airborne, and transmission could be higher in places that are crowded with poor ventilation, experts said.
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experts → crowd → ventilation
Experts said the contract tracing may take a while for the city to provide any updates, as the bacteria behind tuberculosis grows slowly.
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bacteria → say → tuberculosis
“They’ll do testing and probably repeat the testing in a few weeks, because again, sometimes the testing may be negative, but because [the bacteria] grows so slowly, eventually that test may turn positive if there was a true infection
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test → repeat → weeks
,” Peter Chin-Hong, a medical professor at UC San Francisco, told the outlet.
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Hong → tell → outlet
Chin-Hong cautioned against concluding an outbreak occurred, considering that it’s possible the two cases aren’t even linked and may have gotten their infection seperately from other places.
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cases → caution → places
The San Francisco Department of Public Health said it is important for people at risk of tuberculosis to get tested and treated.
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people → say → tuberculosis
The California Post reached out to the strip club for any comment.
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Post → reach → comment
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