HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) -- After leaving seven people dead and sickening at least 114 more, the Legionnaire's Disease outbreak in Upper Manhattan, and how the city's health department handled it, were front and center at a city council hearing on Friday.

It was the first time that the acting health commissioner had to directly account for how her agency responded to the health crisis, since it broke out in August.

The most pointed questions came from the city council speaker, Adrian Adams.

She asked of Acting Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morse, at the beginning of the more than one hour of questions and answers, "Why it took so long for our Harlem residents to be fully informed," about the outbreak, "and by whose directive was it to basically leave folks in the dark?"

Speaker Adams refe

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