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• Betty Rivera was the first in her household to fall sick, early last month.
  — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
• So, what if you’re soon forced to go back into the office, and in doing so, you get exposed to the virus and fall sick?
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
• As Rhodes has said, musicians often fall sick in the aftermath.
  — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
• Most cooks, bartenders and grocery workers who fall sick or have to quarantine will lose money since about two-thirds of them don't have access to paid sick leave.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2021
• Syria’s wrecked infrastructure had caused thousands to fall sick with cholera in recent months; the ruin of its hospitals meant many could get no health care.
  — Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• If an outbreak caused by a variant of the coronavirus occurs in a community, its survivors could become the medicine chest for others who fall sick, a New Jersey researcher said.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• As mail volume has increased during the pandemic, local President Keith Combs said, his chapter has seen workers fall sick or miss work to care for loved ones.
  — Ryan McCarthy and Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 15 June 2020
• They get infected, remain asymptomatic or fall sick, recover or die, all without passing along the virus to anyone.
  — Christopher Cox, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
• Nurses and other hospital staff continued to fall sick themselves, raising nurse to patient ratios in some places to high levels.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Unvaccinated people will continue to fall sick, transmit the virus to others, and in unlucky cases, die.
  — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 12 May 2021
• Others point to the staggering financial success of many companies during the global public health crisis — one that saw an untold number of workers fall sick on the job.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• But when more people began to fall sick the following month, officials tried to curb the spread while also closing as few stores as possible, as federal relief for businesses had dried up.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Bees can fall sick or die if concentrations of oxalic acid are too high, and other chemical miticides can cause reproductive problems in the pollinators.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 June 2021
• The shortages are primarily caused by overwhelming numbers of patients as coronavirus spreads, combined with decreasing staff levels as nurses and doctors themselves fall sick or have to quarantine after being exposed to infected people.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 19 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024