Witnesses Convinced that Cuomo Is Intentionally Hiding Actual Number of Nursing Home Deaths

[rangerrebew]

Witnesses Convinced that Cuomo Is Intentionally Hiding Actual Number of Nursing Home Deaths

By: Cortney O’Brien, Townhall, August 2020:

The New York State Assembly and Senate gave New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker plenty of chances to tell them the number of nursing home residents who have died from COVID, but all he could muster was that he’d “get back” to them. How can that be, the lawmakers wondered. As Democrat James Skoufis noted, even California has managed to share that statistic. He said it “perplexes” him that Zucker couldn’t be just as forthcoming.

The catalyst for Monday’s hearing was Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home mandate back on March 25 that ordered facilities to accept COVID patients who had been discharged from hospitals. Families who have lost someone in a New York nursing home the past few months have no doubt in their mind that Cuomo’s dangerous policy put their loved ones in the grave.

https://gellerreport.com/2020/08/witnesses-convinced-that-cuomo-is-intentionally-hiding-actual-number-of-nursing-home-deaths.html/

[Cyber Liberty]

Janice Dean of FNC certainly has an opinion on this...

[PeteS in CA]

The answer is simple. NY's nursing home deaths stat is only people who died in the nursing home. People who got infected in the nursing home but died in a regular hospital got mixed in with the hospital deaths stat. California and other states were less disingenuous. California was also less stupid, in that the order allowing "recovered" Covid patients to be sent to nursing homes was in effect just 10 days (no comfort to the families of those who died as a consequence, just less stupid than NY).

[Smokin Joe]

Cuomo doesn't want to be on the hook for killing that many people.
And he did.

Simple as that.

[catfish1957]

Cuomo doesn't want to be on the hook for killing that many people.
And he did.

Simple as that.

My thoughts too.  Hope this isn't forgotten from a few months ago...

[Smokin Joe]

My thoughts too.  Hope this isn't forgotten from a few months ago...

Not forgotten at all. It isn't a question of IF, but a question of how many people died because of his edict. I think we'd be looking at genocidal numbers, even if the inflation was deducted.

I'm not about to buy the crap about them 'having one foot in the grave' because I have seen people live for years long after the doctors thought they'd be dead. And how much would any of us give to have a few hours, even a few minutes talking with a beloved departed relative?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Not forgotten at all. It isn't a question of IF, but a question of how many people died because of his edict. I think we'd be looking at genocidal numbers, even if the inflation was deducted.

I'm not about to buy the crap about them 'having one foot in the grave' because I have seen people live for years long after the doctors thought they'd be dead. And how much would any of us give to have a few hours, even a few minutes talking with a beloved departed relative?

That 'one foot in the grave' comment must rile up a lot of people who saw their loved ones they sent to nursing homes for protection be killed outright by a politician like Cuomo.

[Smokin Joe]

That 'one foot in the grave' comment must rile up a lot of people who saw their loved ones they sent to nursing homes for protection be killed outright by a politician like Cuomo.

I know it gets my hackles up, and I didn't have any relatives involved.

[PeteS in CA]

...
I'm not about to buy the crap about them 'having one foot in the grave' because I have seen people live for years long after the doctors thought they'd be dead. And how much would any of us give to have a few hours, even a few minutes talking with a beloved departed relative?

A family member works with a local hospice. To enter hospice care under Medicare a patient must have a Certification of Terminal Illness. This document means that in the best professional judgment of the patient's doctor the patient has 6 months or less to live. Hospices monitor and review patients' condition. It is not rare for a patient to suddenly improve so that they are released from hospice care. Some patients hang on for several years even though the good-faith judgment of their doctor and hospice caregivers is that they have 6 months to live. Such folks are not common, but they are not rare, either.

My Dad entered a facility's "independent living" care (basically a studio apartment with meds delivered and a choice between cooking for oneself or community meals) when my youngest was 10. He progressed to the facility's ALF and then its SNF, living a bit over 6 more years. Yeah, those 6 years were precious to all of us. My MIL lived with us her last 4 1/2 years, also a precious time.