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In reply to the discussion: Cuomo says New York followed federal guidelines when sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes [View all]DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)16. Same thing happened in Pennsylvania
Nursing homes/LTC facilities have accounted for 60%+ of cases and a higher percentage of deaths, iirc. It was a big failure to recognize the potential consequences by our gov and DoH.
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Cuomo says New York followed federal guidelines when sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes [View all]
alp227
May 2020
OP
Sounds right. Trumps appointees have been running the show for 3 years and six months.
pwb
May 2020
#1
They were not allowed to. The Federal Government controls the Comfort and Mercy, and they were
AtheistCrusader
May 2020
#44
Assuming they were screening the people transferred by testing them to make sure
cstanleytech
May 2020
#6
New York was going to get hit hard, but sending covid positive patients into nursing homes
LisaL
May 2020
#10
Nursing homes were told they were required to accept any positive cases that were sent to them
MichMan
May 2020
#17
Whitmer ordered that nursing homes not equipped to handle COVID-19 cases to transfer the resident
Kaleva
May 2020
#23
Only if the nursing home had a dedicated unit that could handle COVID-19 residents
Kaleva
May 2020
#24
Family of victim want to know why he was taken from his apt and placed in a that home.
Kaleva
May 2020
#28
I think the nursing home screwed up palcing the young man in the same room as the elderly man
Kaleva
May 2020
#34
The best I can figure out, the nursing home is where 20 year old was placed after covid diagnosis.
LisaL
May 2020
#36
Michigan can't even provide any data on how many deaths occurred in nursing homes
MichMan
May 2020
#42