THREAD: Cuomo’s March 25 Order Sending Covid Into Nursing Homes. So I keep posting my June tweet with the order and the March 13th CDC guidelines on Nursing homes. It’s this tweet right here https://twitter.com/JonathanFalcons/status/1272679304535605248

Allow me to explain how the March 25th order diverged from the CDC guidelines. To do that, first it’s important to know that every state has a law that requires nursing homes to re-admit residents that have been hospitalized once the hospital deems them to be stable

And a discharge coordinator/planner says they are ready to be discharged. The CDC guidelines sought to guide states by telling them to use their emergency powers to modify that law. The modification recommended was to say, Nursing Homes CAN accept patients

With COVID, but can only do so IF the nursing home had the proper space and protocols in place to maintain those patients in quarantine, meaning they would need to have to set up areas of the NH that would be air tight and sealed off from other healthy residents.

In addition, the CDC said that the NH must also have sufficient PPE for staff treating these patients before they can accept them, even if they had a quarantine section prepared. As we all know, PPE was in short supply, and almost none of them had sufficient PPE to protect from

A viral infection. N95s, face shields, full body suits etc. Hospitals, on the other hand, should have had such items available. Some did, many didn’t. After the guidance was issued, many state governors, Florida included, issued executive orders that mirrored CDC guidelines

Here’s Florida’s executive order. https://ahca.myflorida.com/docs/DEM_ORDER_NO.20-006_In_re_COVID-19_Public_Health_Emergency_Issued_March_15_2020.pdf?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HQA+Alert&utm_content=ESS_multi_EmergOrder_03.15.2020

In NY, as some may recall, @NYGovCuomo was absolutely freaking out by mid March about hospital capacity and PPE. So were nursing homes. They began denying re-entry to residents who were covid positive, stable (not on vents) but likely still infected because they didn’t

Want their healthy residents getting sick. On March 25th, the NY Dept of Health issued its order. That order simply reiterated the existing law. There was no reason to issue that March 25 order if their only goal was to maintain the status quo. The only reason for issuing the

Order can be that they knew the March 13th guidelines differed from the law, but needed to reinforce it to nursing homes. Why did they do that? The answer is simple. Cuomo freaked out. He saw empty beds at nursing homes. He didn’t care about protocols.

He wanted to keep hospital beds available for people that weren’t nursing home residents. The real question though, is why didn’t he allow NH patients to use the field hospitals/ship that @realDonaldTrump set up? It makes absolutely no sense.

I’ll give you that those field hosp beds weren’t always there. So in the beginning, sure, I can find it somewhat understandable. But by the second week of April, there was no excuse. Bottom line, Cuomo hid behind the existing law for cover when he made the decision

To risk the elderly’s lives to keep hospital beds for the younger folks who were getting sick. That’s a death panel decision. The ones we were warned about when ACA was passed. And that’s why Cuomo is a murderer. Murder 3, to be exact. Reckless.