{"id":345823,"date":"2026-09-13T21:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:14:37","slug":"council-health-committee-chair-on-legionnaires-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345823\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Health Committee chair on Legionnaires&#8217; outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Health Committee Chair Lynn Schulman discusses the potential loss of Medicaid coverage, particularly for children, and efforts to connect eligible New Yorkers with care.<\/p>\n<p>She also examines the city&#8217;s response to the deadly Legionnaires&#8217; outbreak, calling for stronger prevention, more health inspectors and better coordination among city agencies, while exploring how climate change and earlier remediation could help prevent future outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council Health Committee Chair Lynn Schulman discusses the potential loss of Medicaid coverage, particularly for children, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7488,98,100,99,7490,7423,7487,9,24,63,200],"class_list":["post-345823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-in-focus","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345823","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=345823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}