Scathing Reports Proves Dem Governors Sentenced The Most Susceptible To COVID-19 To Death
A scathing report was released on Sunday that shows Democrat Governors ignored “science” and sentenced the most susceptible to the coronavirus to death. The governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California all had policies that ordered nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients.
Despite warnings from the American Health Care Association saying, the “frail and older adults who reside in nursing homes” are most susceptible to the Wuhan virus and would “result in more people going to the hospital and more deaths,” Democrat governors ordered nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients.
A month later, the state governments that made that call are responsible for thousands of deaths; they let the fox in the hen house. The deadly virus ravaged nursing homes in the northeastern portion of the country.
The death toll is staggering The Intelligencer reports:
At least 3,043 people have died inside New York nursing homes due to COVID-19 complications, or about 17% of the state’s 18,015 deaths as of Wednesday.
In Pennsylvania, about 65% of coronavirus deaths were nursing-home residents, and in counties in the hardest hit southeastern part of the state, long-term care residents account for as much as 80% of county deaths.
New Jersey had 3,200 residents of long-term care homes die due to complications from the virus, about 40% of the statewide total.
About 58% of the deaths in Delaware lived in nursing homes, and 46% of the fatalities in Maryland were at nursing homes, prompting Gov. Larry Hogan to order residents and staff members at nursing homes be tested for coronavirus.
“To have a mandate that nursing homes accept COVID-19 patients has put many people in grave danger,” said Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition in New York.
“We know facilities have a lot of infection-control problems, we know that facilities have low staff, so what do you think was going to happen when the staff were further strained in caring for these patients?”
New York and New Jersey have both modified their orders informing nursing homes that cannot isolate coronavirus patients to cease accepting them; Pennsylvania has not modified their order yet.
Pennsylvania’s decision to force long-term facilities to accept coronavirus patients is a glaring example of just how much damage these policies have caused.
As of Thursday 468 — one-quarter of Pennsylvania’s roughly 1,900 long-term care centers — had at least one COVID-19 case, according to state health data.
Those residents and staff testing positive combined account for 17% of the state’s 45,763 residents testing positive for the coronavirus since March 6. They also account for roughly 65% of the 2,292 deaths in the state.
During the height of the pandemic, officials were claiming that one person was spreading the coronavirus to two people. If one uses “data” and “facts” like Democrats say that would mean that almost one-third of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 cases were a result of the states long term facility policy.
Not all Democrat Governors responded like pathetic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, for example, Democrat Governor John Edwards of Louisiana back in March 26th ordered nursing homes to not accept coronavirus patients. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and Brian Kemp also forbad long-term facilities from taking coronavirus patients fearing what happened in Washington.
It’s no coincidence that the hardest-hit states all had policies forcing nursing homes and long term facilities to take coronavirus patients and these are the same states with draconian stay at home orders.
Below is more supplemental proof Democrats sentence those at risk to die.
So… let me get this straight….
As @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes to take in COVID infected patients (most dangerous spot for COVID), @GovRonDeSantis was taking steps to block that from happening.
Yet, DeSantis is vilified and Cuomo is a hero?
Got it. Sounds fair. https://t.co/MSgwwSc0Lb
— Christian Ziegler 🇺🇸 @FloridaGOP Vice Chair (@ChrisMZiegler) May 11, 2020
Here is Andrew Cuomo’s March 25th executive order requiring nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients pic.twitter.com/RnxsJKBgQG
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) May 11, 2020
MA did at first, then dialed it back, per AARP https://t.co/zRFOhvNCsi
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) May 11, 2020