They also had a big ship they could have taken the covid patients to. (Reply #8)

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Sun May 24, 2020, 04:32 PM

LisaL (39,568 posts)

8. They also had a big ship they could have taken the covid patients to.

Hardly used as far as I can tell.
What pisses me off is that relatives are not allowed into nursing homes for the fear relatives will spread covid. Yet patients with covid were ordered to be accepted by the nursing homes at least in New York and several other states.

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47 replies	Author	Time	Post
Cuomo says New York followed federal guidelines when sending coronavirus patients to nursing homes [View all]	alp227	May 2020	OP
Sounds right. Trumps appointees have been running the show for 3 years and six months.	pwb	May 2020	#1
They were supposed to know about coronavirus in 2017?	alp227	May 2020	#4
Most other states did not do the same thing.	LisaL	May 2020	#2
Other states didn't have the hospital capacity issue NY had	Sanity Claws	May 2020	#3
Get the timeline right.	Igel	May 2020	#5
They also had a big ship they could have taken the covid patients to.	LisaL	May 2020	#8
They were not allowed to. The Federal Government controls the Comfort and Mercy, and they were	AtheistCrusader	May 2020	#44
Assuming they were screening the people transferred by testing them to make sure	cstanleytech	May 2020	#6
Nope, they weren't screening.	LisaL	May 2020	#7
Very foolish then.	cstanleytech	May 2020	#12
Sure is.	LisaL	May 2020	#15
He said he was "trying to depoliticize the issue"	Steelrolled	May 2020	#9
New York was going to get hit hard, but sending covid positive patients into nursing homes	LisaL	May 2020	#10
That is true.	Steelrolled	May 2020	#11
Same policy in Michigan	MichMan	May 2020	#13
In what Universe does it even make sense?	LisaL	May 2020	#14
Nursing homes were told they were required to accept any positive cases that were sent to them	MichMan	May 2020	#17
Here is a link to Whitmer's order" Executive Order 2020-50 (COVID-19)"	Kaleva	May 2020	#19
Oh I know it was done.	LisaL	May 2020	#20
Whitmer ordered that nursing homes not equipped to handle COVID-19 cases to transfer the resident	Kaleva	May 2020	#23
Yep, Item # I-2	MichMan	May 2020	#21
I guess they had good intentions-to make sue these people	LisaL	May 2020	#22
Only if the nursing home had a dedicated unit that could handle COVID-19 residents	Kaleva	May 2020	#24
What do you think a regional hub is?	LisaL	May 2020	#25
Again, the COVID-19 residents have to be housed in a seperate unit	Kaleva	May 2020	#26
All righty then.	LisaL	May 2020	#27
Family of victim want to know why he was taken from his apt and placed in a that home.	Kaleva	May 2020	#28
Recovery and rehab purposes doesn't exclude rehabbing for covid.	LisaL	May 2020	#30
The attacker was placed in home because of a 911 call	Kaleva	May 2020	#31
Son was in a group home.	LisaL	May 2020	#33
Perpetrator posted a video of the beating on his social media	MichMan	May 2020	#41
Actually it's pretty bizarre.	LisaL	May 2020	#29
Other articales say the son was placed in the home becasue of a 911 call.	Kaleva	May 2020	#32
That story is scrambled a bit.	LisaL	May 2020	#35
I think the nursing home screwed up palcing the young man in the same room as the elderly man	Kaleva	May 2020	#34
The best I can figure out, the nursing home is where 20 year old was placed after covid diagnosis.	LisaL	May 2020	#36
I'm confused about the timeline but it is late!	Kaleva	May 2020	#37
Well, father says son was living a in group home until quite recently.	LisaL	May 2020	#38
Here is an article that makes the timeline clear.	LisaL	May 2020	#46
Thanks!	Kaleva	May 2020	#47
And some are getting	tiredtoo	May 2020	#40
Same thing happened in Pennsylvania	DeminPennswoods	May 2020	#16
Again, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that sending	LisaL	May 2020	#18
I'm with you. There is no defending this bad choice.	EllieBC	May 2020	#39
One thing the LTC facilities could do	DeminPennswoods	May 2020	#45
Michigan can't even provide any data on how many deaths occurred in nursing homes	MichMan	May 2020	#42
Bullshit. They know.	name not needed	May 2020	#43

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