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The policies of New York’s “Golden Governor” caused untold numbers of elderly deaths
http://www.floppingaces.net/2020/05/...lderly-deaths/
5 May 2020 ~~ By DrJohn
Cuomo, in some venues described as the "Golden Governor", has been wrong about nearly everything, from the need for ventilators to the number of beds. Worst of all, he's been very wrong about his handling of elderly COVID patients. He made sure that elderly COVID patients were sent to nursing homes
Gov. Cuomo doubled down Sunday on the state’s controversial directive ordering nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients. The governor — who himself has described nursing homes as a “feeding frenzy’’ for the deadly coronavirus — said that the facilities can’t challenge a state regulation forcing them to admit patients with the contagion.
But he insisted that nursing homes could transfer those ill with the virus to another facility if the centers lacked such things as quarantine space, proper protective equipment and staff.
Asked by a reporter at his daily briefing Sunday if there was anything contradictory about his statements, the governor replied, “No.”
Sending the infected elderly to nursing homes was a death sentence for many. Yet he demanded that they be taken in
New York’s nursing homes weren’t allowed to challenge a controversial order to admit patients with the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday — even though it’s been blamed for spreading the deadly disease among residents. “They don’t have a right to object. That is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing in Albany.
“And the regulation is common sense: if you can’t provide adequate care, you can’t have the patient in your facility and that’s your basic fiduciary obligation — I would say, ethical obligation — and it’s also your legal obligation.”
They had to admit then infected elderly patients and then declare themselves unable to care for them, THEN they might be able to transfer the ill to a facility - you know, like a boat or a Javits Center where they were prepared to handle such patients.Where thousands of beds went unused.
No, Cuomo insisted they go to and infect the nursing homes. It has been a tragedy
At the Cobble Hill Health Center in Brownstone Brooklyn, alone, 55 patients have died during the outbreak — the highest toll in the state. Forty five patients died at the Kings Harbor Multi-care Center in The Bronx, the next highest death toll among the city’s nursing homes.
Forty four patients died at both the Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Queens and the Carmel Richmond facility on Staten Island.
Another 40 people died at the Holliswood Center for Rehabilitation in Queens.
Thirty five patients died at the Plaza Rehab and Nursing Center in The Bronx and 34 perished at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation in Brooklyn.
As of April 21 nearly one quarter of all the deaths in New York were in nursing homes. Former Governor George Pataki called Cuomo's plan a "disaster."
In Lyon, France an elderly nursing home stayed in lockdown for 47 days. Afterwards everyone tested negative. Four patients passed, but none from COVID 19.
That's success.
Comment:
Undoubtedly Governor Andrew Cuomo held to the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat idea that fear mongering and using a crisis to further their ideology is their best tool back fired on him.
He began the whining by claiming he needed 40,000 ventilators, more beds and PPE in the Hospitals throughout New York State and especially New York City. Meanwhile Mayor De Blasio (AKA Mayor Disgraziato) attempted to override the Governor's decisions.
President Trump in a bipartisan fashion catered to Cuomo's pleading and whining for equipment and PPE that Cuomo had previously failed to set funding for it's emergency planning. Trump set up emergency hospitals, sent ventilators and even the hospital ship Hope to New York. Most of which was not used. In fact 4,000 ventilators were found unused in a New York State warehouse.
To add insult to injury, now we find that "Golden Governor" ordered active Covid patients to be treated in Nursing Homes, thus exposing our most vulnerable age groups to the virus. It's no wonder that the death rate in New York is so high.
His refusal to shutting down the MTA subway system added to the pandemic within the city...
Now we find that an additional 1,700 now having spiked to 4,800 dead in nursing homes are attributed to the Coovid-19 and Cuomo's incompetence.
IMHO, nothing will come of this, the "Golden Governor" will be protected by the coopted media and all will be swept under the rug.
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