> felt the need to work while ill in bed, with very little sleep and sick with fever
You are assuming that...
He says he currently has a fever.
But was he sick when he wrote the article? That is not so clear.
He was, it's in the first paragraph
> I have been sick with COVID all week /../, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh.
He was, it's in the first paragraph
> I have been sick with COVID all week /../, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh.