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Why COVID Killed Residents of an Illinois Veterans Home

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix

Published May 7, 2021 at 8:00 AM CDT

On Midwest Week, another group of veterans has died at a state home in Illinois, due to COVID-19 and not Legionnaires Disease.

Herb Trix's guest is Hannah Meisel, statehouse editor for Illinois Public Radio.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

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Herb Trix

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.

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