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by mandis 1882 days ago
NYC sent the elderly, covid positive people to nursing homes, where they died. Is that not a breakdown?
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votepaunchy 1882 days ago
The order by Governor Cuomo sending infected patients into nursing homes was preemptive, which then led to strain on the health care system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_ho...

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tinus_hn 1882 days ago
It’s worse because then they go and infect the rest of that vulnerable group.

I can understand not being able to treat them but at least isolate them…

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hedora 1881 days ago
This is the first I’ve heard of this. If it’s true they were sending known-covid positive cases into nursing homes, whoever gave the order should be tried for mass murder.

Unbelievable!

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zaphod4prez 1880 days ago
It is true, and Cuomo ordered it. Fully agreed that he should be tried for some serious crime. https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/the-hospital-lobby...
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atat7024 1882 days ago
According to...well, everyone, that was a NYS thing, not NYC specifically.
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napier 1882 days ago
More broadly it was a nationwide CDC advisory and not only that, the same shuffling of elderly infected back into nursing facilities happened in countries across the (mostly western) world. Probably based on shared implementations of policy briefing/ pandemic planning documents.
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