[ April 25, 2024 ]
April 8th Photo: A group home in Bayville, N.Y., for people with disabilities. Almost all of the residents had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed homes for the developmentally disabled (high risk) to have staff who have been exposed to COVID. Weeks before he he prohibited these homes from turning someone away for having COVID, therre were numerous reports that nursing homes, assisted living and congregate care centers were the most vulnerbale to Coronavirus.
The biggest drag on New York state is Medicaid – what better way to rid the state of the old, sick, and disabled?
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COVID-19 Death Rates Higher Among Those with Developmental Disabilities
Syracuse University Professor Scott Landes says COVID-19 death rates are higher among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) compared to those without. He says it’s mainly individuals with pre-existing health conditions.
“This population, in general, either because of swallowing problems or disorders, or choking disorders, or just more susceptibility to lung infections seems to develop pneumonia at a higher rate than those in the general population,” said Landes. “That’s just really detrimental when you’re talking about something like COVID
Landes says this pandemic is an even bigger challenge for those living in congregate residential settings. (Spectrum News)
Despite Governor Cuomo’s fatal policies, he enjoys a wave of popularity through his daily coronavirus news briefings. It’s strange and unsettling.
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The New York Times reported:
The call came on March 24. Bob McGuire, the executive director of CP Nassau, a nonprofit group that cares for the developmentally disabled, received a report from a four-story, colonnaded building in Bayville, N.Y., that houses several dozen residents with severe disabilities ranging from cerebral palsy to autism. For many of them, discussions of social distancing or hand washing are moot.
“Bob, we’re starting to see symptoms,” Mr. McGuire was told.
Fevers were spreading. Within 24 hours, 10 residents were taken to the hospital. Now, little more than two weeks later, 37 of the home’s 46 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. Two are dead; nine remain hospitalized. At least eight members of the staff have tested positive as well.
“Forgive me if I get emotional,” Mr. McGuire said in an interview, choking up. “People discount people with disabilities and presume they understand them when they don’t know them. They think their lives are not worth the same as yours or mine, and that’s just not true.”
As the coronavirus preys on the most vulnerable, it is taking root in New York’s sprawling network of group homes for people with special needs.
As of Monday, 1,100 of the 140,000 developmentally disabled people monitored by the state had tested positive for the virus, state officials said. One hundred five had died — a rate, far higher than in the general population, that echoes the toll in some nursing homes.
Separately, a study by a large consortium of private service providers found that residents of group homes and similar facilities in New York City and surrounding areas were 5.34 times more likely than the general population to develop Covid-19 and 4.86 times more likely to die from it. What’s more, nearly 10 percent of the homes’ residents were displaying Covid-like symptoms but had not yet been tested, according to the consortium, New York Disability Advocates.
As early as April 8, there were reports
On April 24, 2020, NYS Disability, Rights Groups urged Governor Cuomo to address the high COVID-19 Risks in Congregate Settings:
April 24, 2020
Honorable Governor Andrew M. Cuomo NY State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Re: NY’s COVID-19 Policies For People With Disabilities Living In Congregate SettingsDear Governor Cuomo:
The undersigned disability rights organizations are writing in regard to the State’s COVID-19 policies and procedures regarding people with disabilities living in congregate care facilities, including nursing homes, adult homes, supportive housing, group homes for people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities, psychiatric hospitals and state prisons.
As you have recently referenced in your press briefings, people in these facilities are at a very high risk for contracting COVID-19 once they enter a facility due to shared and often crowded living quarters. Many programs have shared bedrooms and bathrooms greatly limiting the ability to self-isolate when needed. A lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the staff and residents is exacerbated when programs are understaffed. Many of these facilities faced understaffing prior to the current public health crisis. This situation in many instances has been greatly exacerbated by the spread of the virus and staff being out sick with the coronavirus, providing childcare while schools are closed, or caring for family members that may be sick. In fact, the crisis has grown well beyond a state of emergency for thousands of New Yorkers.
Moreover, many of the people living in these facilities are in the very high-risk category for dying of the virus. This has sadly and disastrously been playing out in NYS facilities over the past month or so. Fatalities in nursing homes and adult homes make up 25% of all fatalities in New York State due to the coronavirus. New York State must make protecting these individuals the highest priority moving forward. Releasing data and investigating nursing homes is a start, but there is much more that the State must do immediately in order to save the lives of thousands of people living in these facilities.
New York State must ensure the protection and rights of the residents in state-funded facilities and programs. This includes:
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15 Comments
3 years ago
Cuomo is personally responsible for the premeditated murders of tens of thousands, due to his ruling(s).
Will justice ever be done?
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You are correct, felix1999, Justice will never be done. Mass murderers will waltz away scot free.
What happened to this ONCE great nation?
3 years ago
Will this be next in the name of “compassion”?
I bet Boris didn’t sign a DNR.
UK Hospitals Force Parents to Condemn Children to Death: Akin to Moloch says Rabbi
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
May 10, 2020 , 1:07 pm
The pandemic has placed great pressures on medical systems around the world, sometimes overloading the hospitals and forcing doctors to choose who receives lifesaving treatment and who is set off to the side to languish and perhaps to die. As a result, many health systems are requesting that higher-risk patients voluntarily sign an agreement that allows doctors to withhold attempts at resuscitation. In some cases, parents are being asked to sign a form telling the doctors to allow their parents or their children to die.
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SIGNING AWAY THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
The dilemma of clinicians being forced to choose which patients will live and which will die first arose in Italy. The Independent reported that official guidelines for doctors in Italy stated that only patients “deemed worthy of intensive care” should receive such care and decisions based on a “distributive justice” approach balanced the demand for care versus available resources. At the height of the crisis, some regions of Italy were using a cut off of 65-years-old in case of pre-existing comorbidities. In the UK, the decision to not use resuscitative techniques including CPR rests with the physician, not with the patient or family. Patients can, while they have the ability, can request not to be resuscitated but patients do not have the right to insist to receive resuscitation. The ultimate decision lies in the hands of the physician. CPR will only be administered if a doctor believes it is in the best interests of the patient.
In the UK, patients with illnesses that are considered “life-limiting” are being asked to sign ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders (DNR). Incurable cancer, motorneurone diseases, untreatable heart and lung conditions, are considered to be at especially high risk if they contract COVID-19 and are being asked to sign DNRs while still uninfected. The DNR notes that people with these conditions will be “unlikely to be offered hospital admission if they become unwell and certainly will not be offered a ventilator bed.” A letter from the health system informing them of this suggested that if they become ill with the virus, their best option is to “remain at home and be cared for by family.” The form from the health service informed the patients that one benefit of their signing a DNR was “scarce ambulance services can be targeted to the young and fit who have a greater chance.”
But it is not just the elderly and sick who are the focus of selective health care. In the UK, parents of vulnerable and sick children are being asked by physicians to sign a DNR if their children catch Covid-19. The order instructs medics not to perform CPR if a patient stops breathing or their heart stops. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence initially instructed doctors to assess people with learning disabilities, autism, or cerebral palsy on a ‘clinical frailty scale’ which would deny some of them hospital treatment. The institute repealed those guidelines after public outcry.
DNRs are ostensibly for the benefit of the patient, offering a ‘dignified death’ and decreasing suffering in cases where an imminent death and/or suffering is deemed inevitable.
Reductions in other care are not supposed to result from DNR, but they do. Patients with DNR are less likely to get medically appropriate care for a wide range of issues such as blood transfusions, cardiac catheterizations, cardiac bypass, operations for surgical complications, blood cultures, central line placement, antibiotics, and diagnostic tests. Patients with DNR, therefore, die sooner, even from causes unrelated to CPR.
In the US, some guidelines for triage during a public health emergency put DNR status in the list of criteria for excluding patients from getting ventilators or other life-saving health care. In 2015, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law issued Ventilator Allocation Guidelines for health care institutions to use in an influenza pandemic if the demand for ventilators exceeded the supply. The guidelines rejected using DNR status in the list of exclusion criteria. But this is due to the expressed goal of triage being to maximize the number of survivors. According to those guidelines, in an institution facing a shortage of ventilators, a patient whose medical record has a DNR order would be denied access to ventilator therapy, even if their likelihood of survival is high.
Critics claim that a DNR is a form of passive euthanasia when a patient passes away because the medical professionals either don’t do something necessary to keep the patient alive or when they stop doing something that is keeping the patient alive.
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https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/149975/uk-hospitals-force-parents-to-condemn-children-to-death-akin-to-molloch-says-rabbi/
3 years ago
He should be brought up on charges. Premeditated murder.
3 years ago
and there is some of your mail in ballots right there…I know for a fact this was done in 2016.
3 years ago
Guinea Goombah Cuomo should be indited for murder.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
He decided in one fell swoop to get rid of them all.
He has no use for people like this.
Hitler felt the same way about less than perfect people and old people.
3 years ago
New Yorker’s are most greedy selfish mf’rs on the planet. They happily go along with this genocide.
3 years ago
MURDERER!!
3 years ago
Hitler had death camps and Coumo has found a way to get the functional equivalent.
3 years ago
deplorable situation :'(
3 years ago
Cuomo’s decisions are made by the libtards he has surrounded himself with. I would not be surprised if the Witch and her operatives are poisoning whatever enthusiasm was developing for Cuomo to replace Bidet. Hillary intends to occupy the White House come January 20, 2021, and no one is going to get in her way.
3 years ago
What is really sad is that half the nation will still support any democrat running for office is really really scary. God created man than cried…now we know why. The Fall is still happening…pray always!
