#Worker shortage stymies vaccine mandates at nursing homes

#Worker shortage stymies vaccine mandates at nursing homes

“#Worker shortage stymies vaccine mandates at nursing homes” BANGOR, Maine — Several Maine healthcare systems and hospitals are mandating COVID-19 vaccines for employees but staffing shortages in many nursing homes may prevent them from following suit. The Bangor Daily News reports that more than 40 nursing homes want to require staff to be vaccinated but longstanding shortages…

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#Onion parody takes aim at Cuomo nursing home scandal

#Onion parody takes aim at Cuomo nursing home scandal

“#Onion parody takes aim at Cuomo nursing home scandal” Ah, the good old days. Satirical news outlet The Onion roasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a new take on his mushrooming sexual harassment scandal, cracking that he was so eager to change the conversation he was looking to pivot public attention back to the COVID-19 nursing…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s eldercide was worse and other commentary

#Andrew Cuomo’s eldercide was worse and other commentary

“#Andrew Cuomo’s eldercide was worse and other commentary” Pandemic journal: Cuo’s Eldercide Was Worse Although Gov. Cuomo’s “sexual misconduct and egregious mishandling of COVID-19 are both heinous,” it shouldn’t be “controversial to assert killing the elderly through incompetence” is more “depraved,” writes Robert Schmad at the Washington Examiner. Yet the media are “flipping the moral…

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#NY state DOH retains outside counsel for Cuomo COVID probes

#NY state DOH retains outside counsel for Cuomo COVID probes

“#NY state DOH retains outside counsel for Cuomo COVID probes” The state Department of Health is lawyering up amid multiple investigations into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged mishandling of New York’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. DOH retained lawyers from the firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson with a $1.5 million contract to “[respond]…

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#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2021” The Issue: The DOJ’s decision not to pursue a civil-rights probe into Gov. Cuomo’s nursing-home order. The decision to drop a probe into the nursing-home deaths that occurred under Gov. Cuo­mo’s direction is another example of the two-tiered judicial system in this country that is tearing our…

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