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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces fierce backlash after a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak kills seven, amid accusations of a delayed municipal response.
New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team is under heavy fire this week for another scandal.
Mamdani’s team is trying to claim victory over a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that has already claimed seven lives, even as five patients remain hospitalized and questions mount about the city’s delayed and incomplete response.
Health Department officials held a virtual news conference and issued a press release announcing that the 14-day incubation window for new cases had closed, with no fresh symptoms emerging.