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Unexplained deaths from pneumonia during the flint water crisis. the most likely number according to frontline is 70, 70 people dead. there is of course a lot we don't know. the water switch coincided with an uptick in the flu, and maybe that's what caused more people in flint to get pneumonia and die and not legionnaires from the water. maybe it was just a coincidence. who can say. but flint is now more than five years into this crisis. now with a new report of 70 unexpected deaths, any one of which may have been caused by what is in that water, how many people really did die as a result of w...

But, you know, the two high-ranking state officials who stood alongside rick snyder and spoke at that press conference with him when they finally broke the news about it months into the crisis? that day last january, the head of the health department and state's chief medical officer, those two top snyder administration officials, they both have now been charged with felonies for their roles in the legionnaire's disease outbreak and how its aftermath was handled. prosecutors say the chief of the health department knew about the outbreak in january 2015. that's a full year before that press con...

Those two top snyder administration officials, they both have now been charged with felonies for their roles in the legionnaire's disease outbreak and how its aftermath was handled. prosecutors say the chief of the health department knew about the outbreak in january 2015. that's a full year before that press conference informing the public. they say while his department wasn't telling the public what was going on, at his department, they were discussing how to, quote, if the flint river water was the cause of the disease, it would be bad or embarrassing for governor snyder, because that decis...

Over the course of 2014 and 2015, we saw a spike in legionnaire's disease with the genesee county. if you go back to the prior years, i believe the numbers for the proceeding years before 2014, we had six cases, 11 cases, 13 cases, and 8 cases. in 2014, we had 45 cases. and 2015 there were 42 cases. >> at least a dozen people died from the outbreak of legionnaire's disease in flint that happened after the water switch. and i say at least a dozen, because we might never know the total number of cases, the total number of deaths and the names of the people who died. in part because that outbreak...

Share about flint. >> this is to continue the fact that we want to make sure we are making good communications with respect to flint. the information was recentlyme, thought it was important to share. over the course of 2014 and 2015, we saw a spike in legionnaire's disease with the genesee county. if you go back to the prior years, i believe the numbers for the proceeding years before 2014, we had six cases, 11 cases, 13 cases, and 8 cases. in 2014, we had 45 cases. and 2015 there were 42 cases. >> at least a dozen people died from the outbreak of legionnaire's disease in flint that happened ...