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.
Were 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They still are being released back to nursing homes with the virus. They just dont test them anymore even if they have all of the symptoms.
“””” I think the real problem here is that no one considered the possibility of a third option for discharged COVID patients. For that, there is no excuse.””””
On another thread today I posted a comment along the lines of:
Since early April the 5 star hotels in NYC have been empty or nearly so.
Of course, Cuomo and Deblasio, along with the incompetent underlings they hired, were incapable of thinking outside the box and create a covid hotel for these covid positive nursing home patients at the Waldorf Astoria..
No, instead Democrats, as they did in San Francisco, put drug addicted homeless in their hotels.
As I believe Forrest Gump said: “You can’t fix stupid.”
CYA, a la Loretta Lynch’s parting email, “We followed all the rules, right? “
The answer is very simple. Como whom had docs of great knowledge to advise him just ignored their advice because he is a complete idiot totally devoid of medical knowlege. He should have listened to his medical advisers. His actions killed many.
“”””Cuomo’s going to have to dump this latest ‘solution’ too. He should ask one nursing home be designated COVID Recovery Center and move patients there when they’re not sick enough to be in the hospital but too dangerous to go back to their nursing home. One ‘home’ only has COVID patients... that ‘hospital in Central Park’ would have been perfect... plenty of fresh air and all...”””
You are so correct. But do not hold your breath that it will ever happen. When people have a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome the only thing the think about is how can I make President Trump look bad.
And TDS applies even more to the media.
Cuomo is about three months late with this policy change. Lawsuits will filed shortly.
“””We might need that ship if theres a war. The ship was there to take patients OTHER than Wuhan types not to take COVID patients.”””
That was the initial intent for the COMFORT. A week or so after the COMFORT’S arrival Trump made it a covid ship.
Meanwhile, Cuomo in an effort to divert attention from his nursing home ‘Killing Fields’ is taking charge and issuing this nationwide warning——
“””Cuomo alerts states about mystery coronavirus illness after three children die
New York state is alerting all other parts of the US about a new mystery syndrome that appears to be related to Covid-19 and ...
The Guardian on MSN.com2h””””
I do not believe it was mismanagement at all. It was purposefully done. Everyone in the world know by then that those in care homes were most at risk to catch, and then to die, from covid. He signed a directive forcing the nursing homes to take those patients.
And then there is this in todays local paper (not allowed to link here) snip: Cuomo has organized seven Northeastern states on a regional reopening plan, but the states all have their own schedules.
New Yorks governor said hes in regular communication with the neighboring states, particularly New Jersey and Connecticut, and said hes comfortable with their plans.”
Get that - Cuomo heads this up. Its starting to be moved out into the sunlight - to normalize it. There are three different groups of states forming compacts- West Coast, Mid-western, and the Northeastern group.
Not even an apology for being six weeks too late.
My bad!
Sally Yates, not Loretta Lynch.
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