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 Cuomo's nursing home order was eventually rescinded, but the order relating to homes for people with disabilities remains in effect.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.
Come on Man, he saved the Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by Killing these people
I feel bad if I accidently run over a squirrel. I do not understand the minds of the powermad elites.
While on the subject....There’s speculation on the fact that he was working on his wonderful book on a wonderful man. I’m not sure how that would affect his decision to send the COVID patients to nursing homes but..... well we speculate.
also speculation that Cuomo got money from the feds if he sent them a nursing home rather to the big ship.
I think it was probably a sort of combination of all this.
And speaking of squirrels (I might not regret running one over as they eat my bird seed like it’s for them)....you’re right. His only regret, if any, is how it might affect his wonderful self.
“So they died” I’ll never forget how he said that.
Another female comes out of the woodwork about the magnificent human being who should govern us all.
He is a killer of old people and molester of females.
He ain’t going to last.
You may be close to the truth
Cuomo would rather people died then have Trump look good by using the Javits Center, the hospital ship, or the Samaritans purse tent hospital in Central Park.
Exactly. No one EVER talks about the ship that Trump sent. Cuomo didn’t want to make Trump look good so he sent them back to die instead of isolating them on that ship as Trump intended. I’m sick of petty men with egos running our country. It’s all about their juvenile little personal vendettas, not what is good for us.
Who murdered more people, bin Laden or Cuomo?
Which is why Democrats have "metoo"ed Cuomo so they will get rid of him that way while ignoring the tragedy that had happened last year.
I personally know head care takers in several nursing homes, they were forced to take them or lose your job
He should fry for that
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.