New York steps up coronavirus protections for nursing home residents

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All nursing-home staff must be tested twice a week for COVID-19 and hospitals may not discharge any patient to nursing homes until they test negative, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said

The effort to step up infection-prevention measures at New York’s nursing homes and adult care facilities came as the state hardest hit by the pandemic has registered a downward trajectory in its daily overall COVID-19 death toll and hospitalizations.

If a nursing home is deemed unable to provide proper treatment and support for a recovering resident, that person is to be transferred to the care of the state, which Cuomo said now has ample hospital bed capacity for such patients.Elderly individuals and people with underlying chronic health conditions are among those at highest risk for severe illness and death from COVID-19, the lung disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

FILE PHOTO: Emergency Medical Technicians wheel a man out of the Cobble Hill Health Center nursing home during an ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo While New York continues to see declines in key measures of the pandemic — its hospitalizations on Sunday hit a seven-week low — many states, including Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas, are reporting rising case tallies even as they move to reopen their economies.

Public health experts have warned that precautions needed for reopening to proceed safely, such as vastly expanded diagnostic testing and contact tracing, have yet to be put in place, risking a major resurgence of the virus. The White House has opened informal talks with Republicans and Democrats in Congress about next steps on coronavirus relief legislation, officials said on Sunday, but they stressed any new federal money would come with strings attached.

 

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Finally

Finally backtracking? Notice it's done out of the light of his press publicity stunt briefings

A bit late, don't you think?

This revelation comes to him now? After he allowed hundreds of patients back into nursing homes which caused widespread infection and death. What a great leader!🤮

Nursing home staff tested 2x’s a week, yet all WhiteHouse get tested 1x each day? TrumpOwnsEveryDeath VoteBlue2020

How can you sound so presidential and the other guy can't?

Too late, too little. NYGovCuomo should resign for his slow and inept response to the Covid-19 crisis.

F staff

NYGovCuomo So they can test negative of the virus RNA in their system through their throat/nose, but then are you going to mandate bowel testing to make sure that the virus isn't living in the intestines, therefore guaranteeing inability of resurgence in that person?

Good job!

Oh now you try to save the elderly after screwimg them over for 6 weeks

Could he phone Boris and mention that might be a good idea here as well. Not that he would listen but you know, just in case 🙄

Should have happened when the nursing home in Washington got slammed.

La tasa de mortalidad por coronavirus en LETICIA, ya va por 50,0 por cienmil hbt, en menos de un mes, mientras que Italia tiene 50,6 y España 56,7 en 4 meses ¿Es grave o no la situación? Preguntamos ¿Dónde están los resultados de las investigaciones por la corrupción denunciada?

don't ever say I'm BAD !

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