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The governors that Who sent coronavirus-positive patients into nursing homes?
by Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst |
| May 13, 2020 01:28 PM
Look at the date of the article, then look at the states, why's CT or MN getting off, and I remember specifically UTAH did the same thing. Are the governors of those states being protected?
Who ordered Covid positive patients into nursing homes:
Yet, even though that was apparent early on, America’s governors have done a poor job of protecting those most at risk — residents of nursing homes, elderly people with physical frailties and, often, cognitive impairment.
The result: One-third of reported coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to the New York Times's reporting, are of nursing home residents or workers. And nursing homes accounted for a majority of deaths in heavily hit states, such as New Jersey (52%), Massachusetts (59%), Pennsylvania (66%), and Connecticut (55%), and for 80% of deaths in otherwise lightly hit Minnesota.
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That percentage is much lower (20%) in America’s COVID-19 epicenter, New York, but the Empire State still leads the nation with 5,403 nursing home deaths — about 1 out of every 14 COVID-19 deaths in the entire country.
Why so many? On March 25, the state health commissioner ordered nursing homes to accept patients with the virus. It’s unclear why he made this fatal decision. Maybe he wanted to keep hospital beds available. Or maybe he feared that sick people would be dumped onto the street.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/who-sent-coronavirus-positive-patients-into-nursing-homes