“””Why? It was good policy last month. Why change now? Why did it take so long to change?”””
Cuomo has killed off most of the weak and frail in NY nursing homes so now is the time to do something different.
Now he will keep them in the hospital where they can infect others.
Given the gross mismanagement by Cuomo and Deblasio and their underlings I would not want to go into a NY hospital for any sort of elective surgery.
There was a dilemma initially. Everyone was concerned that the hospitals would be overrun. So when a musing home patient was hospitalized for COVID and was stable for discharge the hospitals wanted them out both to free up beds and to reduce hospital contagion. When nursing homes wisely declined their return, the hospitals insisted that by law they needed to be taken back. I’m betting they leaned on Cuomo to help them enforce the nursing home return. 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.
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 York’s governor said he’s in regular communication with the neighboring states, particularly New Jersey and Connecticut, and said he’s comfortable with their plans.”
Get that - Cuomo heads this up. It’s 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.