Posted on 04/24/2020 6:46:53 PM PDT by conservative98
New York health officials were warned in writing that a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show.
Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.
“We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails reviewed by The Post.
He was denied.
Donny Tuchman, center, thanks local Cobble Hill residents for their support April 20.Getty Images “I was told those facilities were only for hospitals” to send their overflow patients, Tuchman said.
At the time Tuchman sent his plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center were full and the Comfort — which had just been reconfigured to treat up to 500 COVID-19 patients — had a mere 62 on board.
Adding insult to injury, the Navy hospital ship wound up treating just 179 patients before Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday said it was no longer needed.
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It was all over the news. NY threw a hissy fit and Trump changed it so that the Navy would take COVID-19 patients. That meant they had to swap out many of the doctors that were initially trauma and ER doctors. Money.
Without a doubt.
Trump gave his approval on April 6, IIRC.
Check out stories around that date. You should find plenty.
They completely ignored that Samaritan's Purse hospitals are open to all and do not discriminate. Of course Chick-fil-a pulled the same baloney on the Salvation Army.
I found it thx post 40
I found it. Post 40
If anyone else had doneit, they would be charged with murder.
Bump
AFTER *NYC* botched their screening protocols and sent infected patients to the then pristine ship.
Instead these patients are going back to nursing homes, along with body bags.
Why give a Sh*t what’s on Drudge?
“Instead these patients are going back to nursing homes, along with body bags.”
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..... and, of course, shedding lots and lots of the COVID-19’s virus everywhere in the nursing home.
How creepy that Cuomo sends a body bag, along with the infected patient, to these nursing homes.
#BodyBagCuomo
Forget Drudge. He’s “gone to the dark side”.
I wonder if there are any shysters left in NYC honest enough to file wrongful death suits over this.
Maybe that is one reason Cuomo doesn’t want to be the dem niminee.
Political defiance by the Rats
Sounds like someone majorly screwed up.
The story started out that NYC supposedly made an error and mistakenly sent some Covid patients to the Comfort. Shortly thereafter (a day?)it was reported that Trump made the Comfort for covid patients. The original mistake was never mentioned. I’d bet it was an inside deal by Trump to cover for NYC.
There were for non-virus patients until Andy begged POTUS to let them come aboard.
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