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Ohio woman sues hospital for amputating wrong leg

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
3d ago
Closed
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
4

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Fox News United States · English 30 Sept, 06:49 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Português (2) · Türkçe (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 47 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Fox News, 30 Sept, 06:49 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
  3. Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
  4. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

38%50%12%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 38%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Fox News 30 Sept, 06:49 UTC
  2. The Independent +4h 8m
  3. Proto Thema +6h 6m
  4. NBC News +9h 4m
  5. The Guardian +14h 58m

Last to join

  1. G1 2 Oct, 06:00 UTC
  2. Observador 1 Oct, 15:38 UTC
  3. Sözcü 1 Oct, 05:53 UTC
  4. The Guardian 30 Sept, 21:47 UTC
  5. NBC News 30 Sept, 15:53 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Europe 3: Greece, Portugal, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, English, Portuguese, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article Fox News, 30 Sept 2026, 06:49 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 07:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Woman sues hospital after amputation of wrong leg. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
30 Sept 2026 328 3.92 5 3 5 3 4.0
1 Oct 2026 341 3.61 7 5 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 30 Sept, 07:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 06:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • G1 Brazil 2 Oct, 06:00 UTC
    Mulher tem perna errada amputada durante cirurgia e processa hospital nos EUA
  • NBC News United States 30 Sept, 15:53 UTC
    74-year-old army vet sues hospital after surgeons amputate wrong leg
  • Fox News United States 30 Sept, 06:49 UTC
    Ohio cancer patient sues hospital after surgeon allegedly amputated wrong leg

Europe 4 outlets

  • Observador Portugal 1 Oct, 15:38 UTC
    Ohio. Mulher processa hospital por amputação da perna errada
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 30 Sept, 21:47 UTC
    Ohio woman sues hospital for allegedly amputating wrong leg during surgery
  • Proto Thema Greece 30 Sept, 12:56 UTC
    Απίστευτο λάθος σε νοσοκομείο στις ΗΠΑ: Έκοψαν λάθος πόδι καρκινοπαθούς, χρειάστηκε και δεύτερος ακρωτηριασμός
  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 11:56 UTC
    Ohio cancer patient left double amputee after surgeons cut off wrong leg
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Woman who had wrong leg amputated during surgery for cancer treatment sues hospital 30 Sept, 10:57 UTC

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Sözcü Turkey 1 Oct, 05:53 UTC
    Önce yanlış bacağı sonra doğru bacağı kesilen kadın 1 günde ‘bacaksız’ kaldı
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