Posted on 05/10/2020 12:11:43 PM PDT by knighthawk
Patients in New York hospitals must now test negative for the coronavirus before they can be discharged to nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday — partially reversing a policy that forced sickened seniors into facilities housing those most vulnerable.
“We’re just not going to send a person who is positive to a nursing home after a hospital visit,” said Cuomo during an Albany press briefing. “Period.”
The ruling partially overrides a controversial March 25 order that nursing homes cannot deny admission or readmission on the basis of a positive or suspected COVID-19 case.
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Why? It was good policy last month. Why change now? Why did it take so long to change?
Finally, the light goes on for the Mayor, albeit six weeks too late for many elderly patients.
So now we have the problem of hospitals filling up with COVID patients. Or do we? I see numerous stories of almost empty hospital wards.
You’re not now going to do it because you’ve been caught previously doing it!
After he killed a few thousand people.
Too late you smug A-Hole.
What a typical politician ass.
This mental giant effing MENSA candidate only NOW figured out that sending COVID cases to nursing homes is bad? And they have the gall to call Trump an idiot... Jesus.
After killing ove 6000 old folks in nursing homes, Cuomo now says he is not sending infected people to nursing homes anymore? What’s different now?
Has he reached his deaths quota?
Well, Blasio just figured out a few days ago that the subways needed to be cleaned...
NYers love them some mass murderers.
The horse is already out of the barn.
This is really going to mess up the death rate.I guess we Will have to wait for the Gates/Faici death vaccine
will the media now attack him like they do with Trump
We know now that most “positive” patients are non-infectious 7-9 days after onset.
He got caught that’s what’s different!
Doesn’t make the first order right. We’re not stupid. And every lawsuit will be a winner for the victim’s family.
Mighty white of him.
Cuomo got it right the second time. Shame hundreds of not thousands of NY’s most vulnerable are dead because he was so obviously wrong the first time. This is one of those decisions that will haunt him forever including his political ambition.
texags has a patient who needs two negative tests in a row to be released to nursing home. he feels she is cured and not shedding.
he can’t get two negative tests in a row
in the mean time the patient is at risk in numerous ways.
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