Cuomo on nursing home fiasco: Old people are going to die no matter what you do, you know
Allahpundit Posted at 2:01 pm on May 18, 2020
Via the Blaze, a comment like this coming from Trump would have set off a 24-hour media feeding frenzy.
Especially if Trump had ordered nursing homes to readmit residents who’d tested positive for coronavirus, all but guaranteeing a lethal outbreak among an especially vulnerable population.
Here’s the closest I’ve come to seeing a reasonable explanation for Cuomo’s original nursing-home policy and it’s not all that close:
The [original] order was driven by fears that hospitals would be swamped during the pandemic and that COVID-19 patients who could be at nursing homes would occupy much-needed beds. There was also concern that if nursing homes rejected elderly residents, some could be left with nowhere to go.
But the order overlooked that the coronavirus would present a new and distinct threat to nursing homes and their elderly residents. The mistake was odd, since Cuomo had issued an earlier directive banning all visitors from nursing homes because their patients were, he said, uniquely vulnerable during the pandemic.
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https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/05/18/cuomo-nursing-home-fiasco-old-people-going-die-no-matter-know/