⁍ A COVID-19 outbreak at a Massachusetts veterans’ home contributed to the death of at least 76 residents.
⁍ A grand jury on Thursday indicted superintendent Bennett Walsh and David Clinton, the former medical director of the Soldiers’ Home.
⁍ ‘We allege that the actions of these defendants during the COVID-19 outbreak at the facility put veterans at higher risk of infection and death and warrant criminal charges,’ Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement.
– The superintendent and former medical director of a Massachusetts veterans’ home have been charged with criminal neglect in connection with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that killed at least 76 residents last year, Reuters reports. According to the AP, the outbreak was traced to the Massachusetts Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, where residents were infected with a dangerous bacteria called Legionella. The state attorney general says the home’s superintendent, Bennett Walsh, and former medical director, David Clinton, “put veterans at higher risk of infection and death and warrant criminal charges.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-massachusetts/two-charged-in-coronavirus-outbreak-at-veterans-home-in-massachusetts-attorney-general-idUSL2N2GM0WL