Andrew Cuomo Face Heat For Nursing Home Deaths!

Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces heat over his handling of the pandemic.

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Nothing like the far-right to be obsessed with a scandal that has nothing to do with the bigger picture.

Yes, it's right to hold the powerful accountable for their actions, but where's the outrage when the 45th President of the United States discarded the pandemic response playbook from the 44th President of the United States? Where's the outrage when the first outbreak came into the states and that guy called it a hoax.

Why aren't you angry over the fact he continued to hold large rallies when the pandemic was at its highest peak?

The far-right are seizing on the scandal involving the deaths of elderly New Yorkers dying at nursing homes during the early months of the pandemic. 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is facing a controversy that has the state attorney general and the feds probing what went wrong. 

Enter the early months of the pandemic. March 2020,  Cuomo issued an order that all New York State nursing homes must accept residents that are medically stable. The order further stated that "No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the nursing home solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. Since the order was issued there has been bipartisan criticism of his order and the subsequent tracking of the nursing home deaths.

New York state assemblyman Ron Kim calls out Cuomo for his handling of the pandmeic.

When Cuomo declared a state of emergency after 89 cases were confirmed in the state, issues started popping up with the handing of pandemic. Cuomo would rescind an order that he issued. What he done was allow individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19 enter the nursing homes despite the danger.

He claimed he was taking the CDC and Trump administration advice. 

Politifact said it was false. 

"COVID-19 patients who are medically stable can be discharged from a hospital to a nursing home, but only if the nursing home can implement all recommended infection control procedures."

The Associated Press said that 4,500 patients were recovering from COVID-19 were sent to New York State nursing homes. The report was compiled after the New York State Department of Health did not release its own two weeks earlier.

Now the New York State Attorney General Letitia James issued a report that the New York Department of Health had undercounted the total deaths from COVID-19 within nursing homes by 50%. 

Far-right agitator Janice Dean was the most vocal opponent of Cuomo. She blames him for her parents dying from the coronavirus, not Donald J. Trump who dismissed as a hoax.

Fox News has been heavily promoting this. The far-right agitator Janice Dean who's parents died in a nursing home was the most vocal critic of this scandal. She has demanded the feds look into Cuomo and Fox News agitators like Sean "Screwball" Hannity and Tucker Carlson are covering it.

CNN had warned Chris Cuomo to no longer interview his brother. The progressive agitator is the younger brother of the governor and a fierce critic of the COVID-19 pandemic response from former president Donald J. Trump and President Joe Biden.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said that this was "typical" of Cuomo.

Ron Kim, a Democrat who is critical of Cuomo said he was threatened by him. He said that Cuomo is possibly being obstructive to the investigation and he wanted those looking into out of the way.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) are two supporters of Trump. They ignore Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The other annoyance is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who wants to investigate Cuomo.

Now you know Cuomo isn't the most perfect governor. He literally didn't get much assistance from the federal government. Even when Trump ordered the U.S. medical ships to dock at New York City harbor in the wake of the pandemic, the beds were not safe and people living in the city were dying by the day.

The far-right tabloid The New York Post decides to make this the biggest scandal since Trump incited an insurrection to destroy the peaceful transition of power.

Cuomo has repeatedly defended his administration’s directive for nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients as the product of federal “guidance” — even though one of those government documents says only that infected seniors “can” be admitted to the facilities.

In contrast, the Health Department’s since-rescinded, March 25 memo left little wiggle room to prevent “medically stable” patients from being transferred out of hospitals to nursing homes.

“During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs,” the state directive said.

And if there was any doubt about what that meant, the following sentence was underlined: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”

But a March 13 memo from the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services — which the Health Department has cited as justification for its order — contains a Q&A on that very subject.

“When should a nursing home accept a resident who was diagnosed with COVID-19 from a hospital?” it says.

Thousands of New Yorkers died from the coronavirus.

“A nursing home can accept a resident diagnosed with COVID-19 and still under transmission-based Precautions for COVID-19 as long as the facility can follow CDC guidance for Transmission-Based Precautions. If a nursing home cannot, it must wait until these precautions are discontinued.”

The DOH directive — which cited an “urgent need to expand hospital capacity” — came under immediate fire from three health-care industry groups: AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Medicine, the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. In a March 29 statement, the organizations said they were “deeply concerned” with the underlined portion of the order.

“This is a short-term and short-sighted solution that will only add to the surge in COVID-19 patients that require hospital care,” they said.

A former federal Health and Human Services official also told The Post that it was a potential recipe for disaster.

“[Cuomo] made this blanket requirement and some nursing homes may have not been prepared to have these patients and may have caused cross-contamination,” the ex-official said.

And on Thursday, a draft report by the Empire Center for Public Policy tied “several hundred and possibly more than 1,000” nursing home deaths to the March 25 directive, which it said is “associated with more than one in six of 5,780 nursing home deaths statewide be-tween late March and early May.”

A day earlier, Cuomo vehemently defended the policy, saying, “My health experts don’t believe it was wrong” and that if they did, “I would sue the federal government for malpractice.”

He stood by the policy again Friday, but at neither time ex-plained why he rescinded it under fire on May 10 and instead ordered that anyone being admitted to a nursing home had to first test negative for the coronavirus.

Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, who issued the March 25 directive, cited the March 13 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance during Friday’s news conference.

He inexplicably quoted a portion that says, “Nursing homes should admit any individuals that they would normally admit to their facility, including individuals from hospitals where a case of COV-ID-19 was/is present.” Zucker went on to refer to the part that says nursing homes “can” accept infected patients, noting that the need to follow “transmission-based precautions” was “very important.”

Zucker further read aloud from a March 23 guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying, “The COVID-19 patients from hospitals should go to the facility with the ability to adhere to infection prevention and control recommendations for care of COVID-19 patients.”

“Preferably patients would be placed at a facility that has al-ready cared for COVID-19 cases,” he added.

Zucker noted that when he issued his order, the state was “running out of ICU space” because hospitalizations were “doubling every three days.”

“With the facts that we had at that moment in time, it was the correct decision at that moment in time,” he said.

Over 54,000 Americans died in New York.

Does anyone want to probe the former president and his response to the pandemic?

Does anyone want to probe the deaths in Florida?

Does anyone want to probe the deaths in Texas?