SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday, Dec. 10, his administration has requested the help of the Illinois National Guard at three of four state-run veterans homes, including two homes that are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks.
Pritzker said the National Guard members were sent to the LaSalle Veterans’ Home on Dec. 10, and would arrive on Monday, Dec. 14, at state-run homes in Quincy and Manteno to provide “staff support for screening and handling testing data tracking so that medical staff can focus on direct patient support.”
The LaSalle Veterans’ Home reported an additional death last week, bringing the death toll at the facility to 33 residents since a coronavirus outbreak was first reported at the home on Nov. 1.
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- Cool Papa Bell - Thursday, Dec 17, 20 @ 4:08 pm:
=take a good, hard look in the mirror and realize the harm they are doing to the people who look to them for leadership. You can’t have it both ways= This, all day long.
=== What we need here is a thorough reckoning, starting with the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs. No matter what was going on outside that veterans’ home, the IDVA is responsible for what happens inside it. We as a state have the deaths of 33 residents on our hands. More needs to be done to prepare for the future and to atone for the dead. Much more.===
Kevin McCarthy Dismisses Claims Dan Crenshaw Denigrated Female Vet, Calls Him a Hero
On 12/18/20 at 5:39 PM EST
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy brushed aside allegations that one of his members, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), was part of an orchestrated effort led by a top Trump administration official to disparage the reputation of a female veteran who was sexually assaulted at a government facility.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, gave damaging information to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie about a woman whom he served with to discredit her claim that she was sexually assaulted at a VA facility, according to an independent government watchdog report released last week.