Heard Tucker highlight the failure of Cuomo's decision to allow Covid patients into nursing homes last night. Not mentioned is that G Whitmer of Michigan followed in his footsteps and allowed "recovering" covid19 patients to be moved from hospitals to senior health care facilities with the same predictably disastrous results.
5/7/2020
"Holly Titus said she does not know how more than a dozen residents at WellBridge of Brighton contracted COVID-19.
She said she suspects there have been additional cases, but said she did not know the total number of residents who have contracted the virus. The facility did not test all residents until the state loosened restrictions on who could be tested. She said she believes there were cases before they were able to test everyone.
"It's not something we can stop absolutely. I'm sorry, our world is breaking," she said. "It's unfortunate that FEMA funneled PPE to hospitals and not long-term care facilities. It is getting extremely expensive to source PPE when we need 500-plus masks and gowns and shields a week."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/nursing-home-covid-19-outbreaks-were-playing-catch-up-with-a-vulnerable-population/ar-BB13I528
April 14, 2020
State Senator Lana Theis letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer:
"On Saturday, April 11, 2020, it was confirmed that a Livingston County resident who resides in a nursing home where COVID-19recovering patients are sent contracted the virus. It appears that the decision to house recovering COVID-19 patients with senior living in nursing home facilities, is causing our most vulnerable population actual risk.The decision to houserecovering COVID-19patients seems like an incredibly dangerous decision, and completely counter to the Executive Order above that you have now issued twice. Considering what we have seen occur in such facilities in various other states, where COVID-19 has ravaged facilities’ populations with infection and death, there must be a better alternative. Given that 64% of deceased COVID-19 patients in Michigan are over the age of 70, it does not make sense to unnecessarily increase the risk of infection and death of existing nursing homeresidents by moving in people who have already been infected by the new coronavirus. I respectfully suggest that this practice be immediately be discontinued and that such persons be relocated to alternative sites, perhaps including existing field hospitals that have been constructedfor the express purpose of treating COVID-19."
https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/22/publications/2020-04-13%20Theis%20letter%20to%20governor.pdf