Posted on 03/09/2021 11:31:20 AM PST by Red Badger
The executive order, which remains in effect, mirrors Cuomo's controversial nursing home order.....
As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) faces articles of impeachment over covering up COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and multiple allegations of sexual harassment, there is renewed scrutiny of his administration's mishandling of the pandemic, including focus on an executive order that required homes for people with developmental disabilities to accept coronavirus patients.
Cuomo's nursing home scandal, in which the governor issued an executive order to move COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes and then manipulated data to hide how many senior citizens contracted the coronavirus and died, is well documented. But another directive issued by the governor has until now received little attention.
The April 10 executive order, first highlighted by Maria McFadden Maffucci for National Review, directed residential group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to accept positive COVID-19 patients released by hospitals, just like the executive order for nursing homes. Cuomo's nursing home order was eventually rescinded, but the order relating to homes for people with disabilities remains in effect. The results were tragic.
According to a study published in Disability and Health Journal in June and cited by McFadden Maffucci, New Yorkers with disabilities living in residential group homes were more than twice as likely to have severe outcomes and deaths from COVID-19. "Circumstances and decisions made early in the pandemic may have contributed to the higher case rate of people living with IDD in residential group homes. Those who tested positive for COVID-19 or who had presumed infection (during the time of limited testing availability) were required to return to their residential setting with instructions to sequester," the study's authors wrote.
Now, Fox News reports that 552 residents at homes for people with disabilities have died of COVID-19, according to the New York Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Additionally, more than 6,900 of the more than 34,552 people living in these homes have been infected with coronavirus.
"These group homes were required to have a process in place to expedite the return of asymptomatic residents from the hospital, who were deemed appropriate for return to their OPWDD certified residence," an agency spokeswoman said. "In other words, OPWDD providers could accept individuals only if they could safely accommodate them in the group home."
She added that people "who could not be safely accommodated either remained at the hospital or were served in one of the over 100 temporary sites established for COVID-19 recovery efforts in partnership with OPWDD provider agencies."
New York State Republicans that gave statements to Fox News said they have begun investigating Cuomo's directive and have requested updated data on COVID-19 deaths and infections among New York's IDD community.
"I am deeply concerned that the April 10th order from OPWDD needlessly put some of our most vulnerable citizens in harm's way. Close on the heels of the deadly nursing home order from the Department of Health (DOH), this order appears both dangerous and tone deaf. Transparency has been a major failing of this administration at all levels," state Sen. Mike Martucci, a Republican signatory of the letter and ranking member of the Senate Disabilities Committee, said.
New York has prioritized people with disabilities living in group homes for vaccines and anyone with an intellectual and developmental disability has been eligible to receive a vaccine since Feb. 15.
Coumo is a filthy murderous pig. 80 years ago he would have been an excellent extermination camp commandant.
BUT the man is a monster for telling a reporter he wanted to watch her eat a sandwich...
Cuomo is a mass murderer.
iT’S NOT LIKE HE DIDN’T HAVE OPTIONS.
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Trump brought in the hospital ship and converted a whole building to a hospital. Cuomo didn’t use them. Why? Has one reporter asked him why he didn’t?
I can’t care more than New Yorkers.
There’s no developmental disabilities in Red China...that’s what they told us.
I live in New York. Our local media is so progressive, corrupted and crappy, no one has explored Cuomo’s asinine decision.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume he was not trying to purposely kill thousands of elderly and bring a huge scandal upon himself.
So what prompted such a ridiculous decision? Did he stupidly believe his own propaganda and literally fear Covid19 patients would be dying in the streets for lack of space? At this point, no one knows.
I remember news articles at the time of the order with nursing homes pleading they were not ready to receive these patients only to be threatened with loss of their license if they did not.
Premeditation, anyone?
I think even a decent Prosecutor could make a First Degree Manslaughter charge stick to this POS, to start. Once it was determined that his decision was killing folks, then it could easily rise to Murder. What a POS. Can’t imagine how all those families must be feeling knowing this went on.
He is despicable to even look at.
And so full of himself.
He’s NOT going to win this battle.
He didn’t want to use President Trump’s hospitals built to handle the pandemic lest Trump get some credit.
Can’t have that.
He’s got to go.
There. Fixed it.
Killed them just as sure as if he’d put a gun to their heads.
The media whores are also complicit. Everybody knew about this policy broadly implemented by the anti-Trump cabal and thier states: MI, NY, NJ and PA. They care less about people dying. The goal is always the politics and agenda first. Of course everything Covid was and still is blamed on Trump.
BUT the man is a monster for telling a reporter he wanted to watch her eat a sandwich...
These bastards had to get those numbers up to SCREW TRUMP!! This whole PLANdemic was just that!!!
REDRUM
And the media scum are continuing to circle the wagons for him as in this disgusting piece: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2021/03/why-cuomos-death-order-didnt-really-cause-nys-nursing-home-carnage-a-reality-check.html
I’ll save you the click. The article basically says that COVID infections were already rampant in these facilities before Cuomo ordered them to accept infected patients. So it wasn’t Cuomo’s fault. Complete horses*** but that’s what we’re dealing with.
Actually, I think he looks a lot like the Nazi Goebbels.
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