Cuomo

It took Cuomo almost 2 months to change his policy, meanwhile Gov DeSantos of Florida would not allow them to return until cleared! Of course typical news rags were all over DeSantos. Florida with more residents has had 1000 care home deaths, New York 5800 and Jersey 5300.

Glad Florida decided to loosen restrictions much sooner and enjoy some sort of freedom. Of course, a second wave could change all this but maybe NY and NJ have a “model” too follow.

Plagiarized.

Both Trump and Cuomo screwed up. I hold them to the same standards.

The HUGE difference is that Cuomo realized what he was doing wrong, listened to scientists, and fixed it. Trump refused to accept any blame or responsibility, and instead doubled down on his mistakes.

Tom may not be able to comprehend the difference, but I am.

NY Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo: “We’ve been more aggressive than any state in nursing home precautions. We have been smart.”

5,600+ have died in NY nursing homes after Cuomo’s policy forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients

 

And how many of those deaths would have happened anyway, given that they had already contracted CoVid-19 and were elderly, usually with underlying conditions?

There wasn't, and still isn't, any treatment available for such patients other than sticking them on ventilators and watching them die. To blame Cuomo for that is simply asinine, and Trumper-partisan.

If Kevin lived in New York City and if his Mother was residing in a nursing home that was forced to accept virus infected elders and if his Mother died as a result - Kevin would be singing a much different tune. And Kevin knows it.

Cuomo waited 6 weeks to correct it & probably would never had done it if the Post didn't make it an issue. 

Yesterday we found out that if a virus patient was sent to the hospital & died there, it isn't in the count. So the number of people who died as a result of this policy is even higher. 

What! Are you posting and drinking? Cuomo sent positive Covid patients into elderly facilities with folks who were not infected! Duh, you keep preaching to us how quickly it spreads which it does. So, why would one want to contaminate the other residents?

Gotta go with the woodpecker on this one, your turn Kev

I already explained it. At the time, overburdened hospitals couldn't meaningfully treat those patients anyway. Moving them into nursing homes freed up hospital bed and ICU capacity.

The nursing homes knew full well how to isolate those patients and minimize the risk of spreading the infection. The degree to which they did so is a different issue. But most nursing homes placed their infected residents in quarantine areas. 

These elderly patients received better and more personalized care than they would have while lying on a gurney in a hall, waiting for a hospital bed to become available. Anyone whose symptoms became acute was rushed to the hospital.

The key is, you have to remember, for most people who contracted the virus and were not in immediate distress, the advice from doctors was "go home and come back if you get significantly worse." For many of these elderly patients, that wasn't a viable option. Therefore, the stopgap measure of putting them in nursing homes was implemented.

I'm highly amused at our Trumpers donning the costume of highly qualified medical experts and trying to tell us, with the benefit of hindsight, what  according to THEM,  Cuomo should have done.

And in response to the inevitable question, Trump had far more information and vastly greater resources than Cuomo; yet, he sat with his thumb up his ass for two months. In response to urgent warnings, he fired the people who provided those warnings.