A fifth person has died in connection with the Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak on the Upper East Side, the city\u2019s Health Department said Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday, there had been 82 reported cases of Legionnaires\u2019 disease associated with the outbreak, according to the Health Department\u2019s website – a number that was higher than the 76 reported on the website as of Monday. A first death in the outbreak was announced on Friday, a second death was announced on Saturday, a third death was announced on Sunday and a fourth death was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
Fifty-six people have been discharged from the hospital after being treated, according to the Health Department\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth person has died in connection with the Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak on the Upper East Side, the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2952,25,2953,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-302443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-health","tag-app-top-stories","tag-health","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}