My Mom Was a Legionnaires' Expert. That Didn't Save Her From the Outbreak

The disease that devastated my family—and dozens of other New Yorkers this summer—was not some unavoidable tragedy, but the direct result of a series of failures that have persisted in municipal government for years.

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