5 dead, 82 sick in Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease outbreak
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- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage escalated across 7 distinct news outlets with 7 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 5.
- Primary Driver: 7 news sources are covering this Health story right now — Newsylist is tracking how fast it spreads.
- Predictive Outlook: Newsylist algorithmic models forecast this story will fade from trending status over the next 24 hours.
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"5 dead, 82 sick in Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease outbreak" is generating significant coverage in the Health category, with 7 articles from 7 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Patch, NBC New York, Spectrum News NY1 and Politico. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Synthesized under Newsylist open intelligence methodology from multi-source international newsroom telemetry. Updated 59d ago.
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5 dead, 82 sick in Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease outbreak Gothamist · 61d ago broke it first
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