State Health Chief Calls His Email About Legionnaires’ Death ‘Insensitive’
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Via – WBEZ
“The embattled head of Illinois’ public health agency voiced regret on Wednesday over his language in an email related to the Legionnaires’ disease death of a resident at the state-run Quincy veterans’ home.
The mea culpa from state Public Health Director Nirav Shah came the same day a pair of candidates for attorney general called for an independent investigation into the state’s response to a 2015 Legionnaires’ outbreak that killed a dozen people at the facility. One Democrat in the race raised the possibility of criminal charges against state officials.
Shah’s comments on Illinois Public Media’s The 21st followed a WBEZ report last weekthat revealed the contents of his internal August 2015 correspondence. It was among nearly 1,400 emails the state had been fighting to keep secret, but which WBEZ obtained from the health department in Adams County, where the home is located.”
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