yea, like Hillary, Cuomo is making it easy for the right to lie about him. He withheld no data. NY counted hospital deaths as hospital deaths even if they came from nursing homes. and we know this precisely because the NY AG is investigating it.
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That's like asking if the governors of Texas, Georgia and Flordia will get investigated for their corruption and negligence.
The problem isn't that the deaths weren't counted against the total, it's that the numbers were shifted to hide the ramifications of his policy forcing nursing homes to accept covid patients. And then, when the DOJ began to investigate, he and his staff members plotted how best to deceive the DOJ investigation to hide the truth. You're not arguing against the actual point people are upset about.yea, like Hillary, Cuomo is making it easy for the right to lie about him. He withheld no data. NY counted hospital deaths as hospital deaths even if they came from nursing homes. and we know this precisely because the NY AG is investigating it.
"The word 'undercount' implies there are more total fatalities than have been reported; this is factually wrong," Zucker said. "The OAG's report is only referring to the count of people who were in nursing homes but transferred to hospitals and later died. The OAG suggests that all should be counted as nursing home deaths and not hospital deaths even though they died in hospitals."
Covid death toll at N.Y. state nursing homes 50 percent higher than reported, AG says
New York still leads the nation in Covid-19 deaths with nearly 44,000, NBC News data shows.
The hospitals were not overwhelmed. There was real fear they would be, but they were not. There were temporary hospital facilities set up across the city, as well as the navy hospital ship to off load hospital patients; both went largely unused. There were several options available, even at the time, and Cuomo chose the worst one.
The hospitals were overwhelmed.. the patients were stable and did not need hospital care. There were transported back to their homes. That's it.
No, they were packed back into care facilities to infect the people that were most vulnerable, leading to more hospitalizations and needless deaths. Daily cases in April 2020 peak were half of what they peaked at in January 2021... With a hospital ship and temporary medical facilities across the city, there was no need at that time to send positive patients into nursing homes with the most vulnerable populations. Every effort should have been made to keep Covid OUT of nursing homes.
Nope..they were transferred back to their nursing home or to snf since they did not need acute care and were medically stable.
Just a FWIW, don't use the hospital ships as a potential relief valve for COVID patients. The layout of the ships made them especially awful for a COVID treatment facility and to get admitted on the ships required that the patient be COVID negative. The other option was to make them COVID only, but that didn't happen. The ships were intended for non-COVID patients ONLY, so they wouldn't have to go to COVID infested ERs and hospitals in general at that time.
Now now..lets not be confusing people with facts.
Again, no one needed to be transferred anywhere because hospitals were not overrun. Non covid patients could have been transferred out and covid patients transferred in if numbers had increased; instead they did the opposite, and then tried to cover up the effects of their policies when the DOJ investigated.
Yep. All true. And yet Cuomo chose to do neither. Much easier to infect and kill nursing home patients and staff than to treat them in the hospital and others in the ship or temporary facilities as needed.
Yes, in a perfect world where it was safe to house covid patients in nursing homes, there would not have been a problem. Unfortunately we don't live in that world, and certainly didn't in March 2020. Had NY hospitals actually been overrun and the Navy ship filled and the tent hospitals filled and care rationed, this decision might have been more justified. Since that wasn't the case, it wasn't. And that was known at the time, judging by the blow back he received and the eventual reversal of policy. And then to cover it up is just the icing on the cake.
So care was not actually rationed? And the hospital ship and the Jarvis center were not actually utilized for more than a few patients? They moved covid positive patients into nursing homes to infect and kill others, but couldn't move them anywhere else, or move non covid patients to other locations? Of course they could, and that's why Cuomo reversed his order.
