Watch now: State VA official acknowledges employees with coronavirus allowed to work at LaSalle home where 33 veterans died jg-tc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jg-tc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Notice there is no negative test before returning to work. They are using Trump’s CDC guidelines when it is convenient operationally, even though it puts residents in danger.
If everyone had taken this seriously from the start we wouldn’t have been put into this situation. It also goes to show that we can’t just starve state government to “cut taxes”. There are real impacts which this is most likely one.
Do I understand that they had workers working that had tested for COVID19? That makes no sense that they would then be working but tell me I am wrong. This is not a good situation yet I do know an unfornute one that is hard to fill.
JAMIE MUNKS, RICK PEARSON and DAN PETRELLA
Chicago Tribune
As a young man in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Jerome Liesse flew around the globe, delivering supplies to far-flung U.S. troops, his granddaughter said.
Because of the coronavirus, Liesse, 95 and no longer capable of getting around on his own, spent much of this year confined to his room at a state-run veterans home in LaSalle, a few miles from Starved Rock State Park.
Like other long-term care facilities across the state, the LaSalle Veteransâ Home shut down indoor, in-person visits in an effort to keep the deadly virus outside its walls. Liesse was only able to see Evelan, his wife of more than 40 years, twice during those eight months â once separated by plexiglass â and held her hand just one time, in August after she had a stroke, granddaughter Jill Funfsinn said.
Fri, 12/11/2020 - 3:42pm admin
U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill.has been elected by his House Republican colleagues to serve as the lead Republican on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
The committee works to set the party’s agenda on veterans issues and leading oversight efforts of the administration.
Should Republicans gain the majority in Congress in the next election, Bost would be in line to become the chairman of the full committee.
Bost represents the 12th Congressional District in Southern Illinois. Union County is in the district.
“As a Marine and the father of a Marine, I can think of no greater honor than fighting for America’s veterans as the lead Republican on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee,” Bost said in a news release.
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