{"id":80990,"date":"2020-10-03T00:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gov-cuomo-denies-causing-nursing-home-deaths\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T00:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:55:37","slug":"gov-cuomo-denies-causing-nursing-home-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-cuomo-denies-causing-nursing-home-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gov. Cuomo denies causing nursing home deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gov. Cuomo denies causing nursing home deaths<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ALBANY \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied this week that his state Health Department\u2019s controversial March 25 order saying nursing homes could not bar admission or readmission to a resident based on a positive COVID-19 test had anything to do with the over 6,500 deaths in those facilities related to the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not why they lost a loved one in a nursing home. Your question \u2014 the premise of your question is just actually wrong. People were lost in nursing homes, were lost because that\u2019s where the virus preys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe virus preys on senior citizens,\u201d insisted Cuomo, reprimanding a Finger Lakes News<\/a> Radio reporter during a phone conference call with other members of the media<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a whole report done with data. The way the virus got into nursing homes was from two possible carriers \u2014 before we even knew about it,\u201d continued the governor, ignoring the seeming impossibility of infected staffers at one nursing home having any impact on all the others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe staff, working staff, at the nursing home brought in the virus, or potentially family members before we stopped family visits brought in the virus and this happ<\/a>ened at a time back in February when we didn\u2019t even know the virus was circulating in New York State, that\u2019s how the virus got into the nursing home,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Cuomo has defensively pointed to an internal report conducted by his own state Health Department and widely criticized by medical experts, politicians and family members who lost loved ones in facilities to the virus.<\/p>\n

Experts like Catherine Troisi, an epidemiologist with the University of Texas Health Science<\/a> Center at Houston, ripped the DOH-issued report released in July, arguing the analysis lacked sufficient information including data on nursing homes that were free of the deadly disease before being forced to admit infected patients.<\/p>\n

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A patient arrives at the Cobble Hill Health Center in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.<\/span>Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWould this get published in an academic journal? No,\u201d Troisi told the Associated Press at the time.<\/p>\n

Cuomo however reversed the policy on May 10, announcing hospitals could no longer send patients into nursing homes with a positive coronavirus case following a visit.<\/p>\n

At the time, he argued the former policy was put into place to prevent discrimination against sick patients upon admission or readmission by facilities.<\/p>\n

Presently, 6,484 nursing home residents have died in facilities since March of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to the latest DOH data published Oct. 1. An additional 304 individuals succumbed to the disease in adult care facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019d actually like to understand some facts, I\u2019ll have them send you a full report that was done and then you can help people with the facts,\u201d Cuomo added cheekily to the upstate-based reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIgnorance doesn\u2019t help grieving people. The rule that the State had which was from the CDC guidance, right? The State didn\u2019t make it up, they were following the CDC guidance. Now you can say, well, State Health Department was stupid to follow the federal guidance and you may have a point there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the rules said the nursing home can\u2019t discriminate on the basis of COVID. The law also said a nursing home cannot accept a person who they cannot treat effectively while protecting the other residents. That\u2019s the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never scrambled for beds and we never needed nursing home beds because we always had hospital beds so it just never happened in New York where we needed to say to a nursing home we need you to take this person even though they\u2019re COVID-positive,\u201d Cuomo added.<\/p>\n

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Empty hospital beds at the Jacob Javits Center this past March.<\/span>Daniel William McKnight<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt never happened. We had extra beds. We had extra beds at Javits. We had extra beds at emergency hospitals that we put up all across the state so it just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID-positive person. It never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID positive person. It never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics have argued however that the state\u2019s order went beyond federal guidance, and that it was not clear that facilities had the choice to send sick patients to other facilities as a plan B if they were unable to cohort infected individuals or provide adequate.<\/p>\n

The DOH denied a desperate request from Cobble Hill Health Center in Brownstone Brooklyn CEO Donny Tuchman in April, when he emailed the agency asking if there was \u201ca way for us to send our suspected COVID patients\u201d to the Jacob Javits Center, or the US naval hospital ship USNS Comfort \u2014 but the request was denied.<\/p>\n

Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) \u2014 a frequent critic of the governor\u2019s policy and chief sponsor of legislation that would authorize an independent probe into the state\u2019s handling of the crisis in these facilities was not convinced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governor and his administration are stuck trying to figure out which lies they need to defend and how best to gaslight the public to believe that they did everything to save nursing home lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need the governor to tell the truth and own up to his mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior advisor to the governor, Rich Azzopardi, bit back: \u201cAnyone who bothered to read the transcript would know the Governor was crystal clear and was saying what didn\u2019t happen was the crunch on hospital beds that every projection especially the federal government\u2019s projections predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeparately the law has always been that nursing homes could only accept residents that they could adequately care for. None of that has changed. Those who continue politicize this issue in a shoddy attempt to deflect from the federal government\u2019s incompetent and disastrous pandemic response should be ashamed of themselves and every media organization should hold them accountable for what they are trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Assemblyman Ron Kim<\/span>Bernadette Hogan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, good government group the Empire Center for Public Policy filed a lawsuit arguing the DOH is illegally withholding information about the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in hospitals so it can intentionally undercount deaths.<\/p>\n

And even CNN fact checked the governor\u2019s claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuomo\u2019s assertion that \u2018it never happened\u2019 is false,\u201d the fact-check read. \u201cAccording to a report from the New York State Department of Health, \u20186,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to [nursing home] facilities\u2019 following Cuomo\u2019s mandate that nursing homes accept the readmission of Covid-positive patients from hospitals. Whether or not this was \u2018needed,\u2019 it did in fact happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

That fact-check was shared by CNN anchor Jake Tapper.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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