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RUSH: A quick question. Are you a health care worker? Are you a nurse? Are you an EMT? Are you anybody who does anything in health care? Did you volunteer, for example, to go to New York during the peak period? Did you volunteer as a health care worker to go to New York to help out? Did you do more than was asked of you? Did you go above and beyond? Did you knowingly put yourself at greater risk than any of your fellow citizens by volunteering to go to New York during the peak reporting period of COVID-19...

Why has Governor Cuomo by executive order banned the sale of hydroxychloroquine for at-home use for CoVid-19? Do you know how dangerous and scary it is to get a positive CoVid-19 test result and be told to stay home and isolate with no available medication available to slow, prevent or minimize the progression of the disease as it begins to ravage your respiratory system? As you approach Day 5, the respiratory symptoms often get worse eventually sending you to the hospital. This is a Dangerous Standard of Care for at-home early maintenance of CoVid-19. Governor Cuomo, let's make HCQ available...

This is a story that has gone largely unreported. Soon after the Chinese Wuhan COVID 19 virus reached the West coast it became apparent that the elderly were particularly vulnerable and susceptible. This is from March 11 Before the coronavirus hit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, 120 seniors lived there. Now there are fewer than 50. The long-term care facility, about 20 minutes north of Seattle, has been battling a coronavirus outbreak for weeks. Since the outbreak started, 26 of the center's residents have died, 13 of whom were confirmed to have COVID-19, the disease the coronavirus causes. Some others...

While New York has weathered the brunt of coronavirus infections and deaths, the state’s apparent hoarding of medical supplies, and the millions spent on equipment that never arrived, as well as unused hospitals and beds, have some questioning what went wrong. Early to mid-March projections of the spread of COVID-19 had the state scrambling to bolster its hospital bed capacity to more than double its 53,000 maximum status-quo. Subsequently, hospitals statewide were ordered to discharge patients to free up beds, and forced to add new ones as non-emergency procedures were canceled. In addition to a bevy of state orders, Gov....

...Nurse Miller blamed the spread on staffing problems that have plagued the home for years. Workers were forced to cover shifts in different areas, taking germs with them — and at least one unit was shut with not enough staff to operate it. SEE ALSO Utah launches program to issue free face masks to residents “Veterans were on top of each other,” she said. “We didn’t know who was positive and who was negative and then they grouped people together and that really exacerbated it even more. “That’s when it really blew up,” she said. The home’s superintendent, Bennett Walsh,...

Near the end of his news conference Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo was asked a question about nursing homes. As part of his answer, he described the devilish dangers they face from the coronavirus outbreak because of their vulnerable sick and elderly residents. “What’s really happened in nursing homes is what we’ve feared from the get-go,” Cuomo said. He called them “ground zero” for the virus and added: “It just takes one [infected] person . . . to walk in there and then it is fire through dry grass.”

Anticipating a rather controversial response to this message – Original Here – the alert has been copied to retain distribution. The EAM is provided by a nurse practitioner to notify a larger audience. The video was posted by a nurse practitioner Sara P. The woman discusses the nightmare situation at New York City hospitals battling the coronavirus. According to the video: “Patients left to rot and die” “Never seen so much neglect” “No one cares” “The blind leading the blind” “Murder” “Nightmare” “Out of a horror movie” “I don’t want to be a part of this” The video was first...

1. Cuomo has blood on his hands and is now attempting to blame the nursing homes! He’s unleashed law enforcement and his bureaucrats against the nursing homes that begged him not to send coronavirus patients into their residences. But he insisted.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 27, 2020 2. Cuomo must be investigated and held to account for his deadly fiat.https://t.co/YYvwsTR2ZG— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 27, 2020 Andrew Cuomo Blames Nursing Homes’ Greed for Not Rejecting Coronavirus Patients State Made Them Accept New York Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested Monday that “money” was partly to blame for nursing homes...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who already face criticism for leading what some have described as the worst, most botched response to the coronavirus crisis, now face even more scrutiny over allegations health officials took no action after being warned that a nursing home was being overwhelmed and needed some patients to be transferred elsewhere. According to multiple investigations, administrators at the nursing home in question, Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Health Center, sent desperate emails to state Health Department officials in early April asking if some patients could be transferred to one of...

As of today, nearly 55,000 Americans are reported to have died because of COVID-19. It is well known that the elderly and frail are more susceptible to the Wuhan Coronavirus. As a result, almost one of five COVID-19 deaths have occurred among those who live in nursing homes or other long-term care institutions. New York state is the epicenter of the American outbreak, accounting for 40% of the deaths. The grim statistic stems from the fact New York City has recorded over 155,000 cases (16% of the national total) and over 11,000 deaths (22% of American deaths). One factor for...

The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York State Mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they might still be contagious. At the time, the Long Island nursing home had only one known resident who had contracted the virus, according to to the facility's president and CEO, Stuart Almer. A month later, Gurwin is battling an outbreak that's killed 24 residents — only three of whom were hospital transfers — and one staff member, who worked in housekeeping, Almer said....

The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York state mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they still might be contagious. At the time, the Long Island nursing home had only one known resident who had contracted the virus, according to the facility’s president and CEO, Stuart Almer. A month later, Gurwin is battling an outbreak that’s killed 24 residents - only three of whom were hospital transfers - and one staff member, who worked in housekeeping, Almer said. And...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was widely praised for his tone of leadership, but hiding behind it were dismal failures.During the first two months of the Chinese virus crisis, most in our media depicted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s public persona as “It is so refreshing to see real leadership.” After years of bashing Donald Trump for his tone and supposed rejection of norms, the media found in Cuomo a kind of anti-Trump. His tone was supposedly perfect. But we are now learning that his actual response to the crisis left quite a bit lacking, to say the least. The general media...

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LANSING, MI -- The Michigan Conservative Coalition on Friday announced plans for a protest outside the Michigan State Capitol next week that will feature barbers giving away free haircuts after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive orders aiming to stop the spread of COVID-19 closed barbershops, salons and other businesses. The protest is planned for May 20 from noon to 3 p.m. outside the Capitol. In a press release announcing the protest, organizers called on those planning on participating to adhere to social distancing guidelines and wear face coverings. Volunteer barbers will “have chairs and safe equipment to provide basic haircuts” according...

A Western New York law firm has sued Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Letitia James for alleged “abuse of power” amid the coronavirus pandemic. HoganWillig PLLC filed a lawsuit this week after the state hit them with a “cease and desist” order for continuing to allow employees to report its office in Getzville, N.Y. The firm said Cuomo’s executive orders shutting down non-essential businesses violated the U.S. Constitution and accused James of resorting to “scare tactics” in threatening civil and criminal penalties. “Defendants, in a disturbing and gross abuse of their power, have seized the COVID-19 pandemic to...

Washington state Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who ran for his party's presidential nomination on a climate-change agenda, sees the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity "to peddle a solution to climate change." In a virtual town hall hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Inslee said the crisis, during which he has implemented some of the nation's most stringent stay-home orders, "has always been an economic opportunity." The governor's remarks at the town hall Wednesday, called "Saving our Planet from the Existential Threat of Climate Change, were spotlighted by longtime Seattle talk-radio host Dori Monson of KIRO FM. "We should not be intimidated...

During a COVID-19 update on Friday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reiterated that sports fans won't be able to fill stadiums until a vaccine is available. In the Friday press conference, Whitmer responded to a reporter's question about what conditions she thought that professional and college sports would be able to return to Michigan. "I think that we're going to be in a new normal for quite a while," Whitmer said. "We need a vaccine, and we need to have mask quantities available or we need to be able to test and acknowledge that we've got some immunity that's built up....

On March 23, Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker declared a public health emergency relating to COVID-19. He created a list of businesses and organizations he believes provide “essential services” and ordered all non-essential businesses to cease in-person operations. Constitutional freedoms derived from the Bill of Rights are not among the list of essential services, including the freedom to worship according to our consciences. In Massachusetts, I can stand in a line of 200 people at a liquor store to buy a bottle of Maker’s Mark, but I am not afforded the same reasonable accommodations in the same-sized building across the street...

Lebanon County commissioners have passed a protest resolution declaring the county in the yellow phase of the state’s pandemic reopening plan, effective immediately. The 2-1 vote came hours before Gov. Tom Wolf named 12 more counties to start a limited reopening next week; Lebanon was not among them. The board may be the first to have taken a formal action to break out from the governor’s plan, though legal experts say that given the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision affirming Wolf’s public health emergency disaster declaration, it’s likely has no legal relevance. The court, in that case, noted longtime Perry County...