Posted on 08/11/2020 11:17:41 AM PDT by Mount Athos
New Yorks coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.
So far the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number, leading to speculation the state is manipulating the figures to make it appear it is doing better than other states and to make a tragic situation less dire.
A running tally by The Associated Press shows that more than 68,200 residents and staff at nursing homes and long-term facilities across the nation have died from the coronarivus, out of more than 163,000 overall deaths.
Dr. Michael Wasserman, president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, said it is unethical of New York to not break out the deaths of nursing home residents at hospitals. From an epidemiological and scientific perspective, there is absolutely no reason not to count them.
But a controversial March 25 order to send recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals into nursing homes that was designed to free up hospital bed space at the height of the pandemic has drawn withering criticism from relatives and patient advocates who contend it accelerated nursing home outbreaks.
Cuomo reversed the order under pressure in early May.
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The Party of Death strikes again.
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Without those deaths, we would be struggling to hit 100,000
There’s stupidity and there’s also malice.
It's a little Democrat civil war going on. In this case it's Cuomo vs AOC and DeBlasio.
If AP is hitting him, that means he’s through as far as being a national figure. So, due to his sheer stupidity, the Dems will now be forced to find someone else to replace Biden on the top of the ticket.
Janice Dean, who lost in-laws to coronavirus, was pulled from testifying
Assembly Health Cmte chair wrote, I have been told that The Senate is not comfortable including her on the witness list, so we will not be including her to testify.
https://t.co/pVLIGxF9Z9 #FoxNews— Tom O'Mara (@SenatorOMara) August 11, 2020
Someone needs to to Cuomo as the Grim Reaper
and a white supremacist grim reaper ta boot
330,000,000 people in this country.
No need for the democrat party lockdown. All politics.
Good, let them eat each other.
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