[ April 15, 2024 ]
Any increase in New York’s declining death numbers will be a result of Governor Cuomo sending seniors afflicted with Coronavirus back to nursing homes – hotbeds of the old and sick, far and away the largest demographic that dies from the virus.
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1254058620167356416
New York refused to send nursing home’s COVID-19 patients to nearly empty USNS Comfort
By Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding, NY Post, April 24, 2020:
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New York health officials were warned in writing that a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show.
Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.
“We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails reviewed by The Post. He was denied.
“I was told those facilities were only for hospitals” to send their overflow patients, Tuchman said.
At the time Tuchman sent his plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center were full and the Comfort — which had just been reconfigured to treat up to 500 COVID-19 patients — had a mere 62 on board.
Adding insult to injury, the Navy hospital ship wound up treating just 179 patients before Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday said it was no longer needed.
The Comfort remained docked at Pier 90 with 29 patients on board Friday but was expected to return to its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia, as soon as possible.
Cobble Hill has led all state nursing homes in the number of residents killed by the coronavirus since the state Health Department began releasing those figures last week.
That figure remained stable as of Thursday, the latest date for which statistics were available, and was followed by 51 at Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation in Queens.
Kings Harbor Multicare Center in The Bronx, Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Queens, and Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Staten Island were next, with 45 deaths each.
Tuchman’s April 9 email wasn’t the only time that the state was put on notice about the dire conditions at Cobble Hill.
In an email one day earlier, Tuchman told Health Department officials that the facility had “over 50 symptomatic patients scattered through the building and almost no gowns.”
Tuchman said Cobble Hill had been asking the city’s Office of Emergency Management “daily” for more gowns, but “gotten only a few hundred delivered.”
“There is no way for us to prevent the spread under these conditions,” he wrote in desperation on April 8. “Is there anything more we can do to protect our patients and staff? Thank you for any help you could be.”
Tuchman got a response 20 minutes later, but all it offered was an attachment with advice on how to conserve PPE, the email chain shows.
“Many facilities have built this guidance into their contingency plan in the event of PPE supply shortages and depletion of supplies. Thanks,” a health official wrote.
A follow-up response about two hours later added, “Please be sure to submit your request through the local OEM daily” — even though Tuchman had said he was already doing that.
Tuchman said Friday the shortages of protective gear grew so severe staffers resorted to wearing trash bags as protection — echoing the situation that scandalized Mount Sinai West hospital in Manhattan when The Post exposed the practice there last month.
“This has been a very sad and painful experience,” Tuchman added. “Once the virus gets into the building it is very, very hard to control.”
Cuomo sparked widespread outrage earlier this week when he said that providing private nursing homes with PPE was “not our job,” with Mayor de Blasio, a longtime rival, saying there’s a “moral imperative to protect our seniors.”
Cuomo also said Thursday that any nursing home that can’t provide a coronavirus patient with an “adequate level of care” could ask the Health Department to transfer the patient elsewhere, and Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said he was unaware of any nursing home having made that request.
Inside the coronavirus’ hellish wrath in New York’s nursing homes
Under a controversial March 25 order, the Health Department barred nursing homes from refusing admission to “medically stable” coronavirus patients.
In a prepared statement, Health Department spokesman Gary Holmes said, “To be clear: We engaged in conversation with Mr. Tuchman on more than one occasion regarding staffing. He wanted additional help, but stated he was able to meet basic needs under the directive – which included having adequate facilities.”
Holmes also said officials “conducted a focus survey at Cobble Hill and found no deficient practices” and that it would soon be receiving “more than 1,400 gowns and approximately 1,500 face shields.”
“Additionally, as we track inventory for all facilities daily, our records indicate they have more than a week’s supply of N95 masks, two month’s supply of surgical masks, and nearly two week’s supply of gloves,” he added.
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25 Comments
3 years ago
Why should anyone be surprised? It’s his sly way of allowing for euthanesia. When you have a Governor that proudly touts infanticide why should needless death of the affirmed be a problem?
New York is a SEWER of filth from every perspective.
Cuomo touts SEWER “values”.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
There is hope in all things, even epidemic mortality graphs. Spain has a while to go before she has Covid-9 under control, but she has passed the hump in mortality. When the USA does this, we will all celebrate.
[The vertical axis should read, ‘Daily Number of Deaths’]
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Thanks, DR, I don’t hear that very often. I hope all is well, and you and yours are healthy. By the way, thanks for the information, it is always informative and pertinent. There’s a lot of BS pumped out these days. Take care.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
You too. I’m having a blast with these Covid-19 data. That sounds morbid, but somebody has to do the arithmetic, or we are at the mercy of the Deep State minions. And the more we can understand, the more mortalities that we can prevent.
PS: My final thoughts before sleep last night: “Where’s Ziggy?” True!
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
My wife said the same thing, I replied, who were you expecting? You are absolutely right, DR, without folks like you who take the time to do the arithmetic, we are at the mercy of the Deep State; they, parasite-like, are so deeply embedded into the core of the nation. Thanks for thinking about me, again, a rarity in the life of Ziggy. Just take care, stay healthy and realize your efforts are appreciated.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Meanwhile, the MSM and Democrats laud Cuomo’s bigoted utterances and his COVID19 actions or inactions. The great divide, creating a social schism, was and remained part of the faux-Democrats’ blueprint to destroy America.
Biden is no more than a puppet for the faux-Democrats radical puppeteers. Cuomo is no more than a self-aggrandizing, self-righteous acolyte of the Democrats, a man of no moral compass or intention to aid those by refusing to utilize the USNS’ to save or comfort the lives of aged COVID19 victims. His refusal differs not from Hitler’s T-4 program to eradicate the elderly, infirm, or others deemed a burden to society. Cuomo, of course, is part of the Democrat’s New World Order or Disorder. A fusing of political dogmas of which Nazism, Communism, and other autocratic, despotic diktats.
3 years ago
Well of course! All he wants from the Feds is money that can be misspent, or to make up for money that was misspent. He can’t misappropriate a hospital ship, so he doesn’t need it. He would rather force coronavirus-free nursing homes to accept corona patients, and then start an investigation into those nursing homes on why they could not stem the spread of the virus from wi5hin.
3 years ago
This is exactly what to expect from government control of your health care. i am surprised that they didn’t check your voter registration before your insurance.
3 years ago
It’s worse than that! They were literally shunned and the medical employees lacked proper protection. Godless liberals have little value for human life unless it is useful to their agenda.
New York Denies Nursing Home’s Coronavirus Patients Admittance to Underused Federal Hospitals
BY PENNY STARR 25 Apr 2020
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Coronavirus patients at a Brooklyn nursing home were denied admission to both of the medical facilities established in New York to handle victims of the pandemic even though beds were mostly empty.
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New York health officials were warned in writing that a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show.
Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.
At the time Tuchman sent his plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center were full and the Comfort — which had just been reconfigured to treat up to 500 COVID-19 patients — had a mere 62 on board.
The Post reported that when the article was published, Cobble Hill led the state in nursing home deaths.
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Tuchman told the Post on Friday that the shortages of protective gear got so bad staffers resorted to wearing trash bags as protection.
“This has been a very sad and painful experience,” Tuchman said. “Once the virus gets into the building it is very, very hard to control.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/25/new-york-denies-nursing-homes-coronavirus-patients-admittance-to-underused-federal-hospitals/
No wonder the elderly and infirmed have a HIGH death rate in NY. They are probably viewed as throw away people, saving money on SS and less medical expense while ILLEGALS are given the red carpet treatment. Older people tend to be more conservative too…
3 years ago
“Is he nuts?”
Yes, he is criminally insane.
The goal is the WH, and they can’t scare people into voting by mail without death and fear. Death and fear was the reason this virus popped up like magic. It is mass murder to take political power. Why would they stop murdering now?
3 years ago
Has this wingnut been hanging around with aoc? I’ll bet Cuomo and his merry band of mental misfits will try to blame Trump for any fallout.
3 years ago
Wait a minute…weren’t the ignorant libturds talking about investigating Trump about how he handled the virus and he acted quicker than any libturd could have done. And nothing will be done about them refusing to allow very sick patients from getting the care that they need! Nothing but ignorant libturd criminals!!!
3 years ago
According to the wiki photos of the Comfort’s ICU area, there was no quarantine capability in ICU. If not there, I would suspect nowhere aboard ship.
The original authorized plans were to have no CCP virus patients aboard, but NYC snuck three aboard saying OOPS, likely necessitating Decontamination of the entire ship within that air handling area if not the entire ship (including medical staff quarters) itself.
Apparently the USNS hospital ships could not readily handle the ER type traffic from the docks so had a poor help quantity without extraordinary efforts that were not needed.
3 years ago
They want old people to die
Bacause many vote GOP
Also they are thinning the herd and its population control, killing old people who now regarded as useless eaters
3 years ago
In the first place, I refuse to believe that the coronavirus is as pervasive or as deadly as it is being played up to be.
Patients with pre-existing conditions, the most vulnerable among us, who contract the virus and die are determined to have expired solely because of the virus and not having it listed as a “comorbidity”, the simultaneous presence of two chronic conditions in the same patient.
Statistics are like a prostitute, you can do with them just about anything you wish.
3 years ago
WTF with our being shown his daily pressers on nationwide TV? Is he campaigning to be Biden’s VP (or his replacement)?
Who installed or appointed this wise ass as the fount of all knowledge and wisdom?
3 years ago
The older you are, the less likely you would vote Democrat. Ergo, why keep them alive.
This has to be brought up time and time again if Cuomo decides to be crowned the Dem’s nomination for candidate. Let the country know that the Dems were going to go first with Biden, a man without a mind, and then makes Cuomo, who ignores the dying elderly, king apparent.
Talk about having blood on one’s hand!
3 years ago
The media is silent, because Fredo is a Demorat.
3 years ago
The only way to describe the way this idiot handled this situation is with one word: clusterfuck!. It seems he did everything to make the situation worse. The measures that were taken to set up the Javits Center and to deploy the Comfort were astronomical and this boob dropped the ball.
3 years ago
Reply to
Roland
He hasn’t just dropped the ball but deliberately slammed it into the ground.
Before this is all over Cuomo needs to be brought before a Judge to account for his Criminal Behavior.
3 years ago
Cuomo wallows in the stink of death, a Commie LibTard surrounded by Libtards searching for a final solution. Anyone living in New York is at extreme risk of unnecessary death. I am convinced many are underestimating the lethality of the CCP Virus and that too many of us are denying its devastating lethality. I submit the following information and ask for comments. I judge it to be accurate but ask the wise people who visit this site to read and evaluate it. Go to The CCP Virus attack is far worse than anyone wants to admit. https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-04-24-case-fatality-rate-cfr-is-not-infection-fatality-rate-ifr-coronavirus.html
