Legally Cuomo possibly did not say that the nursing homes were required to take back the coronavirus patients. But he did say that they had to take them directly from the hospital, IF they had a safe place for them to be separated from the rest of the nursing home. Cuomo is a master at weasel words which only works for Democrats because the media backs them up.
This was very early in the pandemic and ambulances were coming back to the nursing homes even late at night.The fact that Cuomo had the Naval Hospital ship and the Javits Center temporary hospital and the Samaritan’s purse hospital in Central Park makes his policies even more evil. Como never opened them for nursing home patients.
I don't think Cuomo could make that call.
The ship was originally dispatched to take non-WuFlu patients requiring hospitalization on the assumption that NY hospitals would be hotbeds of infection.