Chair Schulman flags discrepancy in first case dates on DOHMH websites
Schulman points out a press release lists first cases as June 27 and 29, while the Legionnaires webpage shows June 23. Martin explains the difference between symptom onset dates and diagnosis dates, and agrees to look into the specific discrepancy.
Okay, I wanted to just bring to your attention, so there's a press release on
Your site on the DOHMH site that says the first cases happened in as of 627 and 629.
But if you go to the DOHMH Legionnaires webpage, it shows the first case was on 623.
So what's the discrepancy?
Can you share more about which sites you're talking about?
So is it, what site are you looking at?
DOHMH did a press release.
So it's on the DOHMH site.
There's a press release about the second death in Upper East Side Legionnaires disease.
And then it lists in that press release, it lists the first cases as from 627 and 629.
But if you go to your Legionnaires webpage, it shows the first case was all the way back on 623.
So I'm just asking what the discrepancy is.
I don't know if it's an error or whatever, but because people are...
Going up and looking at that stuff.
So I just want to point that out.
Yeah, I'd have to look at the exact sites that you're suggesting.
You can take a look and then circle back with us.
I would, yeah, I would appreciate that.
Let me share, there are two different clocks that we look at when it comes to Legionnaire's disease.
There's the symptom onset date, and then there's the diagnosis date.
So someone might be diagnosed, for instance, on July 5th, but their symptoms might start July 1st.
Because if the first case was on 6-23, that's a big difference from it being a week later.
Yeah, we...
We can look into it.
So just, yeah.
So take a look and see if you can get back to us.