Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
2 of 24 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
21
Health
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A New York City Marathon spectator who had just cheered on 24-year-old Rachel Apa moments before she collapsed Sunday, revealed that she rushed to her side, held her hand and told her “she wasn’t alone.”
asserted
she → cheer → her
Hospital social worker Michaela Nicholas and her fiancé had initially planned to stay on the sidelines of the marathon just briefly but after getting “drawn in by the energy of New York City,” the couple decided to continue cheering near a marker that told the runners they were only 2.2 miles from the finish line, the Daily Mail reported.
asserted
Mail → plan → line
The couple spotted Apa running by at around 1:30 p.m., decked out in green with “Rachel” printed across her bib.
asserted
Apa → spot → bib
“So we both cheered,” Nicholas told the publication.
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Nicholas → cheer → publication
“‘Let’s go, Rachel!
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’s → let → ?
You got this!’”
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You → got → this
Only a few moments later, Nicholas said she glanced up the road around the 24-mile mark, “about 15 yards ahead,” and saw Apa “was collapsed on the floor.”
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Apa → say → floor
Two young women competing in the race stopped to help the fallen runner — one of whom was on the phone to 911 — as Nicholas broke through the spectator barrier to help.
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Nicholas → compete → barrier
The social worker found Apa unresponsive and without a pulse, while her fiancé yelled out for a doctor.
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fiancé → find → doctor
“I held Rachel’s hand and just told her that she wasn’t alone, that she had so many people who loved her,” Nicholas said.
“I just wanted to make sure she wasn’t scared.”
asserted
she → hold → her
Two doctors in the crowd quickly rushed to her side and began CPR on her — and Nicholas said a prayer as she rubbed the cross on Apa’s bracelet.
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she → rush → bracelet
“I work in palliative care and I unfortunately have seen a lot of people at end of life,” Nicholas said.
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Nicholas → work → life
“And I knew it was serious.”
She remained at Apa’s side until medics from the marathon arrived, and only left Central Park once the runner was placed on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
At that point, Nicholas “just thought about what else I could do” and then scrolled through the names of the 61,000 runners who participated to find Rachel.
uncertain
who → know → Rachel
“I found her parents’ names and phone numbers, and I called Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai – the two closest hospitals to where the incident happened – and just asked that they write down her parents’ phone numbers in case they hadn’t already been able to contact [them],” the heroic spectator told the Mail.
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spectator → find → Mail
Nicholas said she didn’t find out about Apa’s death until Monday and then decided to call the runner’s parents — Steve Apa and Michelle Apa.
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she → say → parents
“I was debating reaching out to her family or not,” Nicholas explained.
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Nicholas → debate → family
“And my gut was just telling me that I wanted to relay that people were with Rachel and that she wasn’t alone, that she was surrounded by a team of people trying to help.”
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she → tell → people
Nicholas said Apa’s grieving parents were “just so loving and kind and so appreciative” to receive her call on Monday.
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parents → say → Monday
“To be able to thank someone while you’re grieving like that is remarkable,” Nicholas said.
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Nicholas → thank → that
She said “it’s so devastating that Rachel passed away,” but “so proud to be a healthcare worker, and to be among amazing doctors and nurses and humans who just [react] when their help is needed…
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help → say → doctors
they did everything they could,” she told the outlet.
uncertain
she → do → outlet
Apa was a gifted former student-athlete who played field hockey at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and had just started her graduate degree at Charleston Southern University.
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who → play → University
“The loss of a vibrant young woman in the prime of her life is a sorrow no parent can imagine enduring,” B. Keith Faulkner, president of CSU said in a statement.
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Faulkner → imagine → statement
“Her final hours are forever marked by Rachel’s selfless dedication to helping others as she ran to raise funds in the fight against Parkinson’s disease.”
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she → mark → disease
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