Bad State Decisions about Nursing Homes
Are Heavily Driving the Coronavirus Outbreak
National Review,
by
Jim Geraghty
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/10/2020 5:19:23 AM
Coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes have been particularly deadly in California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
You could make a strong argument that the country’s deadly coronavirus problem is largely a nursing home problem, dangerous everywhere but far more prevalent in a half-dozen or so of the country’s more heavily and densely populated states. What’s more, many of these states enacted coronavirus response policies that likely put nursing and assisted-living home residents at higher risk for infection.
Notice the California policy described by the San Jose Mercury News:
Even as senior care centers have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/10/2020 6:17:36 AM (No. 406693)
Their decisions/regulations killed a lot of helpless elderly people. They need to be exposed and indicted for murder. Anyone in their right mind knows that nursing homes are not equipped to care for elderly that contract the virus. It spreads like wild fire in the nursing homes. Not one of the medical facilities proved by the Feds in NY were utilized by these seniors and they lost 5,000. 65% of the total deaths in PA were elderly in nursing homes. Wolf followed his Regional Manager's (Cuomo) guidance and sent the sick back to the nursing homes. Families should sue the Governors that made these bad decisions.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/10/2020 6:25:23 AM (No. 406697)
Gee wonder what those six states have in common that might explain this?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
judy 5/10/2020 6:26:32 AM (No. 406698)
The governor of Florida stopped all visitors, started testing all employees & isolated the positive cases. He did it right. He planned it county by county instead of state wide.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 5/10/2020 7:17:03 AM (No. 406742)
As the story notes, we here in Pennsylvania are hit hard by this. My next door neighbor lost her brother in a nearby facility just days ago.
long-term care facilities compete with McDonald's and Wendy's for workers. It is insane to think they possess the skills to properly isolate infected residents and care for them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chase9365 5/10/2020 7:25:34 AM (No. 406750)
So, we can't visit great grandma because we might bring in the virus to her assisted living facility here in NJ. But, if a resident is hospitalized and then upon release they are making it illegal to test for virus upon return to facility. Yep! More of that unquestionable logic spewed by our State leaders! UGGGGH!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 5/10/2020 7:39:50 AM (No. 406764)
Think of any flu season. Someone in your household gets it. It's not unusual for everybody to wind up with it. Now multiply that by 10 or 20, and make it old people with compromised health. Hello! McFly!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gone2pot 5/10/2020 8:21:06 AM (No. 406805)
dangerous everywhere but far more prevalent in a half-dozen or so of the country’s more heavily and densely populated states.
"dangerous everywhere but far more prevalent in a half-dozen or so of the country’s BLUE states."
There, fixed it for you.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Namma 5/10/2020 8:22:54 AM (No. 406810)
Democrat Wuhan death panels.
Don’t the Dems need the votes of the elderly. Oh wait. They get the vote either way. The elderly person can be dead or alive. But guaranteed if the person is dead.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/10/2020 8:38:40 AM (No. 406829)
Being locked down in hermetically sealed facilities with no access to sunshine and fresh air is a death sentence,
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/10/2020 8:39:51 AM (No. 406830)
My mother was in a nursing home when a strain of influenza type A swept through it and she showed symptoms. They immediately sent her to a hospital. She recovered. That was about 8 years ago. The very idea of importing flu sufferers into the nursing home would never have been entertained.
Where I live, you simply can't visit friends and family in assisted living or nursing homes at all, even though you don't have any symptoms.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Phantomll 5/10/2020 9:12:25 AM (No. 406865)
What #3 said. Gov DeSantis got it right.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena 5/10/2020 9:13:35 AM (No. 406866)
48% of deaths in Illinois. Governor Pritzker has actually suggested it’s not his problem because most nursing homes are privately owned! Hey J.B., so are restaurants, barbers, movie theaters, sports teams, etc.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LtE126 5/10/2020 9:34:04 AM (No. 406883)
DeSantis did it right "isolate, contain and stabilize"
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/10/2020 9:54:29 AM (No. 406907)
These deaths highlight a greater problem. In order to pare down the welfare rolls, States offered training for the newly created position of CNA. This virtually eliminated the position of LPN, and left the care of the sick and elderly to minimum wage, poorly trained employees.
In order to make ends meet, these healthcare workers often take on shifts in multiple facilities.
These were the findings when Gov. DeSantis dispatched the National Guard to nursing homes and rehab centers to track and trace how Covid was getting into these facilities.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/10/2020 10:06:13 AM (No. 406922)
pennsylvania was burdened by a health commissioner who, by any rational measure, is mentally impaired. (A man who thinks he is a she, is mentally impaired, no matter what the LBGTQ believes.)
Dr. 'Rachel' Levine has failed Pennsylvanians by issuing edicts that were nonsensical. governor wolf has failed Pennsylvanians by demonstrating a curious lack of understanding much of anything. The little guy should go back to New Jersey. Dr. Rachel Levine should go back to Penn State and seek psychiatric help - ironic, since 'she' taught psychiatry at Penn State's medical School.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BevNJ 5/10/2020 10:51:12 AM (No. 406970)
#2, could it be that they’re all members of The Party of Death?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mizzmac 5/10/2020 11:34:56 AM (No. 407001)
It's a two-fer for the Democrat governors: Kill off the elderly and 1) get more money, 2) off a likely-Republican voter. Genius. Evil genius...but genius. Plus, no push back from the Democrat propagandists disguising as journalists.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
marbles 5/10/2020 12:19:19 PM (No. 407062)
Seems to me , the governors want people to die. Why would you put people that are sick with a known condition that can be fatal in a facility that can't take care of them ? Why?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/10/2020 12:22:34 PM (No. 407065)
Cuomo should be charged with manslaughter for sending covid patients to nursing homes. Today is Mother's Day-someone in Sullivan county NY hung a sign from an overpass that reads CUOMO KILLED MY MOTHER. How about that Chris Cuomo, er Fredo? You gonna press your brother to comment on the fact that he has ACTUAL blood on his hands?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 5/10/2020 12:35:47 PM (No. 407080)
Gov Cuomo in NYS should be indicted for manslaughter. He spoke of the danger in nursing homes early on, saying disease spreads through them like wildfire, ( his words ). and subsequently mandating patients be sent to nursing homes and prohibiting testing them. I wrote to the NYS A.G. Ms James asking her to indict the governor, knowing she would never take that action; perhaps if she received thousands of letters to the same effect she would think twice. Gov Cuomo didn't make a mistake or a bad decision, he did it intentionally and purposely, because he is a 'king' in his own mind. In my mind, he is a delusional, power hungry, celebrity seeking , corrupt, 'indirect' murderer. (there were at least 2,000 open beds in NYC that could have been used, outside of the nursing homes ). I hope that relatives of the victims initiate a class action lawsuit against him.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/10/2020 12:51:46 PM (No. 407102)
The greatest number of deaths in Kansas were in the county just north of mine. 7.5 times the deaths per capita as in my county. Rumors in the medical community are "it got into some nursing homes".
So far, no real facts coming out, but SOMETHING was very, very different in that county.
And obesity seems to be the REAL risk factor which increases you chances of dying. But, "we can't be unkind to the obese, so we can't talk much about it" seems to be the way most of this is going now. I don't want to be unkind to the obese, but if there is an added risk perhaps people should hear about it, make their choices with all the information.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/10/2020 1:11:07 PM (No. 407138)
Democrat governors and mayors are the ones making horrible decisions and draconian mandates. But, of coarse, that is all President Trump's fault.
The people that elected them, got what they wanted. But, of coarse, that is all President Trump's fault.
Democrats never accept responsibility when bad things happen.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/10/2020 2:24:23 PM (No. 407201)
I'm just a civilian here, but my sister was a nurse and I went to tons of parties with medical professionals.
I have never figured out why they essentially closed all hospitals to everything but The Virus, instead of having dedicated larger hospitals for Wuhan Flu patients until they fully recover. That would have left the smaller community hospitals open and available for elective surgeries and treatment of chronic and serious illnesses. Three months in and our hospitals are still empty with doctors and nurses sitting at home. It sure seems like crashing our medical system is another aspect of Democrats not letting this crisis go to waste. Is this more evidence the "crisis" was manufactured by the globalists at Soros, Inc.?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
dbdiva 5/10/2020 3:12:59 PM (No. 407251)
Finally a little bit of good news in PA. I got an alert from our newspaper that our county officials are moving our county from "red" to "yellow" next Friday even tbough we were not listed among the counties that the governor listed in his May 8 decree. They sent a letter to Tommy stating that his conditions for reopening the state were too arbitrary in addition to changing constantly. They looked at the data and indicated that they didn't care if he approved or not..... The county DA also indicated that they would not prosecute people caught flouting the rules.
Seems other counties are defying the governor as well.
This is a small step in the right direction; I was starting to worry that we'd continue to be sheep in the governor's flock.
I'm already a sheep in the Lord's flock ; I'm spoken for.
I hope more PA counties join the rebellion and in so doing put this tyrannical putz in his place.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/10/2020 4:39:33 PM (No. 407326)
Wow, I'd heard about this happening in New York, but had no idea that California had been, and was still, doing this!
FTA: "A letter from the state [Calif.] Department of Social Services sent to licensees of senior and adult care residential facilities on Friday urged them to temporarily take in patients who have tested positive for the virus — for up to $1,000 a day — to make room in hospitals for people who become critically ill and require acute care."
That is CRAZY! They must be either really stupid or unbelievably evil!!
Also, #4 is absolutely dead-on about the caliber of much of the staff in these places. My elderly mother was temporarily in and out of one of these places several times, and I can attest to this. In Marin County, no less....not exactly a backwater....
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Oysterhaven 5/10/2020 4:50:46 PM (No. 407332)
Don't forget Massachusetts. Our RINO Governor totally screwed things up at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/state-reports-more-deaths-at-soldiers-home-in-holyoke-as-total-nears-90/
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