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Insane: New York Allowed Workers With Known COVID-19 Diagnoses to Remain on the Job at Nursing Homes
Guy Benson
Yesterday brought the terrible news that New York had increased its Coronavirus death toll by more than 1,600 lives lost, based on new data out of nursing homes. That spike -- coupled with disturbing reports about the current, more contagious strain of Coronavirus perhaps infecting people who'd recovered from a previous strain, as well as unpleasant revisions of a closely-watched model -- set off a fresh round of pessimism and fear among many Americans. There's no sugarcoating this sort of tragedy:
The coronavirus crisis at New York’s nursing homes is even worse than previously thought. Monday night, the state Department of Health issued new data, adding more than 1,600 people who were presumed to have died of the virus in nursing homes, but did not have a confirmed diagnosis, to the official toll. As of May 3, according to the new data, 4,813 people had died from the virus in nursing homes. The new data does not include nursing home residents who died in hospitals. The number of deaths of nursing home residents, either at nursing homes or in hospitals, stood at 3,025 on April 28, and another approximately 100 people died at nursing homes from April 29 to May 2, according to state figures.
