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Queens Assistant Principal's swine flu not treatable; condition worsening, family by his side
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob May 15, 2009 01:33pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Daily News |
| News Date | Friday, May 15, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Queens assistant principal stricken with swine flu was barely clinging to life Friday as his distraught family blamed slow-moving city officials for putting him in peril.
Bonnie Wiener, taking a break from her bedside vigil with husband Mitchell, said the principal at IS 238 in Queens wanted to close the school last week - but was rebuffed.
The city Health Department "chastised him and told him he was going to start a panic," she said.
"Everyone knows that this was unnecessary, and lives were put at risk, because the Department of Health was afraid to act in the best interest of the students and faculty."
By Tuesday night, her husband's temperature soared above 100 degrees and he became "borderline incoherent," the reading and language teacher told the Daily News.
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