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This Sept. 14, 2019 file photo shows Adam Schlesinger, from left, Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen in the press room with the awards for outstanding original music and lyrics for "Crazy Ex Girlfriend" at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
This Sept. 14, 2019 file photo shows Adam Schlesinger, from left, Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen in the press room with the awards for outstanding original music and lyrics for "Crazy Ex Girlfriend" at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator and star Rachel Bloom has had her first child in what she says was a harrowing experience amid the coronavirus outbreak that has struck a close friend. The 32-year-old Bloom said on Instagram that she and husband Dan Gregor returned home Wednesday with the healthy baby girl who had spent time in intensive care in a California hospital. Bloom's friend Adam Schlesinger, the musician with whom she won an Emmy last year for writing a song for her CW musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, died from the coronavirus on Wednesday in a hospital in New York state. "Having a baby in the NICU during a pandemic while a dear friend was in the hospital 3,000 miles away made this by far the most emotionally intense week of mine and Gregor's lives," Bloom wrote in an Instagram post that came shortly before Schlesinger's death was announced. "As the lovely doctors and nurses helped my daughter get some fluid out of her lungs, we watched the maternity ward around us change hourly to prepare for the upcoming COVID storm." Bloom said the whole family is safe and thanked medical workers from "those in our NICUs to those directly helping COVID patients like Adam, they are sacrificing so much to fight on the front lines of this war."

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• Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been freed from a Manhattan federal lockup four months early by a judge who cited his asthma and the greater danger he would face behind bars during the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer made the ruling public Thursday, a day after he told lawyers on both sides that he intended to do so. He cited "a raging and virulent pandemic that has entered federal prisons in New York City." Prosecutors did not oppose the action. "In light of the heightened medical risk presented to Mr. Hernandez by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are extraordinary and compelling reasons to reduce Mr. Hernandez's sentence," he said. Last week, the judge said he would have sentenced the 23-year-old performer, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, to home confinement rather than prison when he announced the sentence in December had he known then of the coronavirus. Tekashi 6ix9ine, who was diagnosed in October with bronchitis and sinusitis, testified against members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang, earning him leniency from charges that could have subjected him to a mandatory minimum 37 years in prison for crimes that included orchestrating a shooting in which an innocent bystander was wounded. Now freed, he will be subject to electronic monitoring until he is released from home confinement. Until then, he can visit only his lawyer or a doctor.

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Daniel Hernandez, the rapper known as Tekashi69 or 6ix9ine, is shown in this 2018 file photo. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)

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