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By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-08-03 09:13 Share CLOSE
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a disproportionate fatality rate in some veterans homes compared with other nursing homes, leading the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to move to ensure more lives aren t lost to the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The VA runs more than 100 nursing homes, or community living centers (CLC) in every state. A CLC is solely funded and managed by the VA. They cater to 33,000 American veterans, who mostly served during World War II.
But with more than 30,000 beds and about 133 homes, it is the state veterans home program that is the largest provider of long-term care to veterans, the VA said.
CITY HALL HACK ‘SHOCKING’ DEATH OF A STAR-CHITECT ALD. MOORE JOINS SOS RACE
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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Hope you enjoyed your autumn weekend.
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A huge cache of internal emails from City Hall was hacked by a third party and made public Friday, revealing the inner workings of Mayor
Lori Lightfoot’s administration in Chicago.
The select group of emails had been given to the Jones Day law firm as part of an inquiry into how the police raid on Anjanette Young’s home had been handled. The law firm transferred them to a third party as part of that investigation using a data software service when the emails were swiped. “The breach . at no time involved or impacted the city’s computers or computer system,” according to a statement from the city.
How DeSantis became the country’s villain, yet protected the vulnerable, elderly and nursing homes is beyond me. The question is whether Pritzker follows the Cuomo route or whether Chapa Lavia takes the heat for him.
=== How DeSantis became the country’s villain===
DeSantis is a guy who took $250K from Bruce Rauner to vaccine uber-wealthy folks… a pattern that seems to be a DeSantis calling card.
Meh. Not surprised you ignored that.
To the post,
The discovery for these lawsuits will be eye opening and potentially explosive. We may see how bad the former director was, and how terribly long the Pritzker Administration seemingly kept the director around.