OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...afia-bosses-italy-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

Several Italian mafia bosses released from prison over coronavirus fears

 

WalMartians rule !

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1192421


Fauci's absence from recent coronavirus briefings draws notice

The national health expert was in attendance for just one of this week's seven briefings.

 

Sanctuary Release

 

He says this as if we're not watching his press briefings live. He can't be taken out of context. We're listening to everything he says. So if the news is "fake," it's coming from his mouth. Of course, every sane person gets this so I don't know why I even post it. Biden in 2020. Get this over with.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/nursing-homes-coronavirus.html

‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected
California, New Jersey and New York have made nursing homes accept Covid-19 patients from hospitals. Residents and workers fear the policy is risking lives.
By Kim Barker and Amy Julia Harris

April 24, 2020
Neal Nibur has lived in a nursing home for about a year, ever since he had a bad bout of pneumonia. Now, the 80-year-old man has not only his own health to worry about but that of his neighbors at the Poughkeepsie, N.Y., residence. Four new patients recently arrived from the hospital with Covid-19.

They were admitted for one reason, according to staff members: A state guideline says nursing homes cannot refuse to take patients from hospitals solely because they have the coronavirus.

“I don’t like them playing Russian roulette with my life,” said Mr. Nibur, who is on oxygen. “It’s putting us at risk. I am 80 years old with underlying problems. Everybody here has an underlying problem.”

The disease caused by the virus has killed more than 10,500 residents and staff members at nursing homes and long-term care facilities nationwide, according to a New York Times analysis. That is nearly a quarter of deaths in the United States from the pandemic. On Saturday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York described nursing homes as a “feeding frenzy for this virus.”

But states are increasingly turning to nursing homes to relieve the burden on hospitals and take in Covid-19 patients considered stable enough to be released. Although there is no evidence so far that the practice has allowed infections to spread in nursing homes, many residents and advocates fear that it is only a matter of time. One lawsuit in New Jersey alleges that a worker was likely to have been sickened by a Covid-19 patient readmitted from a hospital.

At the epicenter of the outbreak, New York issued a strict new rule last month: Nursing homes must readmit residents sent to hospitals with the coronavirus and accept new patients as long as they are deemed “medically stable.” California and New Jerseyhave also said that nursing homes should take in such patients. Homes are allowed to turn patients away if they claim they can’t care for them safely — but administrators say they worry that refusing patients could provoke regulatory scrutiny, and advocates say it could result in a loss of revenue.

In contrast to these states, Connecticut and Massachusetts designated certain facilities for Covid-19 patients alone — considered the safest way to free up hospital beds. The Washington Health Care Association, which represents long-term care facilities in Washington State, has asked officials to adopt a similar policy; so far, they have not.

“It’s got to happen,” said Robin Dale, the association’s president. “Then we would not have this hodgepodge of every nursing home in the state having one or two positives and crossing your fingers that it works out.”

Beth Martino, spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association, which represents nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, said her association had heard that a number of states were considering measures similar to those in California, New Jersey and New York. But many others haven’t offered any guidance on the matter.

The fears that moving coronavirus patients to nursing homes might spark outbreaks is compounded by the lack of protective equipment at many facilities, as well as shortages in staffing, requiring workers to interact with more patients. And not all hospitals are testing to check whether stable patients are still infectious before releasing them.

 

Trump can't escape culpability.

 

Agreed. Just as Governor Cuomo can’t escape culpability for sending infected seniors back to nursing homes. 43% of all New York Deaths were from Senior Citizens.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...enforce-covid-19-quarantine-order/ar-BB13ceVE
am conflicted about this potential development. as a resident , i am all in on the 14 day quarantine because of the obvious, however the electronic tracking thing bothers me. not sure how it differs from a human network of observation and follow up of the infected/potentially infected's activities and tracking. seems a subtle difference.
edit: maybe we can make all visitors wear a unlockable flashing bracelet with a "T" for tourist, lol?
second edit: now i worry about an equivalence between my "T" tourist bracelet and the star of david marker on clothing in the third riech and no longer laughing.

 

lol, still trying to deflect away from trumps errors? You have a lot of work to catch up on as it was a bad week for the cheetoh man.

 

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-hijacks-masks-for-veterans-hospitals_n_5ea4c72dc5b6805f9ece2bc3

 

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/0...sponse-desperate-requests-were-ignored-913058

Cuomo, de Blasio face scrutiny for botched nursing home response, desperate requests were ignored