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The update comes just a few days after the city's health department proposed new rules for the testing of building cooling towers, suspected origin of the outbreak. A Department of Health spokesperson told CNN that the proposed rules were in development well before the Legionnaires' cluster in Central Harlem." Inspections have dropped sharply, city data shows, with fewer than half as many in 2024 compared to 2017, when the city began tracking numbers, according to Gothamist, a non-profit newsroom affiliated with WNYC public radio. Health officials say all working cooling towers in the affected area have been tested, and those with Legionella have been cleaned."