It’s yet another epic illustration of city government’s routine dysfunction: The same disease — Legionnaires’ — keeps hitting vulnerable communities , even though our public health officials know exactly how to prevent it.

When even the cooling tower at Harlem Hospital — run by the Department of Health — tests positive for Legionella, the alarms should be ringing.

All the key lessons should’ve been learned from the 2015 Legionnaires’ outbreak in The Bronx, but the DoH somehow forgot them.

This is the same agency that locked playgrounds and shut down schools and churches during COVID, extending many mandates in the city far longer than in the most of the country — implicitly claiming supreme competence.

Yet these geniuses have been conducting fewer than half the cooling-tower i

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