Several journalists who are sick from covering the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 spoke to CNN Wire to let other journalists know that the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and the World Trade Center Health Program cover journalists as well as rescue and recovery workers.
Vincent Novak of NBC has site-related prostate cancer. “Without my telling the doctor I had been at ground zero, in 2016 he told me the first cancer cell probably showed up 15 years earlier, which would be 2001. I found that pretty amazing,” he said.
