There seem to be two kinds of Republicans who run for governor in NY. The Pataki kind (a while back) who win and then do nothing much except some non-helpful things, and ignorant right wing jerk crackpots from my fine snowbound birthplace area who fortunately lose big.
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Different people, different accusations:
“Cuomo” (Murphy, Whitmer, Wolf and Newsom) forced nursing homes to accept stabilized COVID patients from hospitals. These were CDC guidelines at the time and also required nursing homes to follow infection control protocols. Blaming these orders for nursing home deaths assumes that if not for these orders, there would be no (or less) COVID in nursing homes.
“Cuomo” forbade nursing homes from testing returning patients for COVID. Tests were scarce. Returning COVID patients were to be assumed to have COVID.
“Cuomo” (Murphy, Whitmer, Wolf and Newsom) exempted nursing homes (and hospitals) from liability. As did 27 states.
“Cuomo” only reported deaths in nursing homes as “nursing home deaths.” Nursing home patients who were hospitalized and died outside the nursing home were omitted. The data made that clear. People following the data understood that limitation.
“Cuomo” issued a report blaming nursing home deaths on staff and visitors, rather than the state’s order, supposedly using the lower number of deaths as justification.
“Cuomo” would not provide the federal government with the “real” nursing home numbers, afraid they’d use them against him.
Nursing home patients made up 30-50% of COVID deaths nearly everywhere. New York’s percents and Florida’s are roughly equivalent. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California were not exceptions here.
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So would a cauliflower.
Interesting source you cited…
Reade or RT? That’s where Reade ran her op-ed.
RT
I’m more a TPM person than RT. But TPM didn’t run Reade’s op-ed.
I’m not coming out for or against Reade. Just stating her position.
good grief! what is wrong with you…it being ok never entered my mind…was just making an inquiry, since i don’t live in NY or read NY papers@@
it seems to me that once an accusation is made…to back down leaves one open to a defamation law suit.
Interesting place Reade chose to run her op-ed.