Governor Bruce Rauner is defending his administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy… but new revelations are raising new questions about whether the state did everything it could to alert residents and their families to the danger.
Chicago Public Radio reports that there was a six-day gap in 2015 between state officials identifying the outbreak and the first press release warning about it… a time lag that one expert calls “mind-boggling.”
It also turns out that there have been six new cases this year… even though state officials have been saying there were only three.