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New York health website deletes Cuomo's order linked to nursing home fatalities

2020-05-27

[FoxNews] New York officials have scrubbed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's March 25 order requiring nursing homes to take in COVID-19 patients from the state health department website -- even as Cuomo's office insists that the order, which has been linked to thousands of nursing home deaths, remains in effect.

The web page that once contained the order now directs to a page indicating that the file is "not found." The archive indicates that the deletion occurred sometime after May 5, around the time that criticism over New York's nursing home fatalities intensified.

A copy of the page saved by the Internet archive Wayback Machine, however, shows that Cuomo's order stated: "No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the NH [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission."

On May 10, Cuomo issued a new directive stating that hospitals cannot send patients back to nursing homes in the state unless they tested negative for the virus. The move appeared to largely invalidate the March 25 directive.

However, senior Cuomo communications director Peter Ajemian insisted in an email to Fox News that it was "not accurate" to state that Cuomo had "reversed" the March 25 order.

"He didn't reverse or rescind anything," Ajemian wrote at the time. "The order is still in effect. He did add a directive, this one directed at hospitals, saying they must test patients and the patients must be negative before being sent back to a nursing home. And he is requiring nursing homes to test staff twice a week."

Worrying new graphs show how coronavirus is STILL surging in many US states with infections spiking up to 900% in parts of Texas and Florida since April
It’s easy to get excited when cherry-picking the data.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Researchers looked at infection and fatality rates from 116 counties in 33 states.

Harrison, Texas has seen daily cases increase from about 300 per 100,000 people in mid- April to 3,000 per 100,000 on May 22

Daily infections jumped in Clay County, Florida from 160 per 100,000 on April 1 to 800 on May 22

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin cases have increased by 360 percent, with spikes after the state Supreme Court struck down stay-at-home orders

Study Finds 42% of All US COVID-19 Deaths or Over 40,000 Deaths Were in Nursing Homes

Posted by:Skidmark

#4 Locally the recent big spike in cases is due to mass testing at the chicken processing plant.

Posted by: Glenmore 2020-05-27 12:07

#3 SOB Minnesota Waltz' "health" department still has this murder policy online. I'm going to follow up later with this.

Posted by: Woodrow 2020-05-27 08:27

#2 Did they replace that with a video clip of the CNN comedy shtick with his brother?

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-27 07:47

#1 Worrying new graphs show how coronavirus is STILL surging in many US states with infections spiking up to 900% in parts of Texas and Florida since April

Texas has 4.5% deaths among resolved cases.
Florida has 22%.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-27 03:36

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