A report circulated to media outlets by a plaintiffs’ lawyer offered scant evidence to implicate hospital linens as a source of mold that infected five patients who were already critically ill and later died in 2015 and 2016. In follow-up statements on Jan. 28, state and federal health officials reaffirmed earlier findings that didn’t implicate linens in the deaths. They added that no further investigation is planned.
 
The report by two healthcare environmental specialists commissioned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was issued on May 2, 2016. However, it was distributed to media outlets on ...