A report is out on a COVID-19 outbreak at a state Veterans home in November 2020. The LaSalle Veterans home had 36 residents die from COVID at the height of an outbreak.

The report from the Auditor General says the Illinois Department of Public Health was slow to react the spread of the virus inside the home – not showing up until 11 days after the outbreak began. Governor JB Pritzker says when the outbreak was at its worst everything was going against keeping residents safe.

The report notes that the IDPH health region the veteran’s home is located in saw positive cases jump from October to November of 2020 by 212 percent.