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Hopefully, most Americans are now aware of the Andrew Cuomo nursing home scandal, that Cuomo ordered nursing homes to take Wuhan coronavirus positive patients whether they wanted to or not. There’s now an investigation underway because of the subsequent cover-up of the number of deaths, which people now believe to be about 15,000 after the order on March 25, 2020.
But that wasn’t the only place he ordered to accept coronavirus patients.
Cuomo ordered homes for the developmentally disabled to accept virus patients and never reversed the order, as he did the nursing home order. The April 10th order was similar to the nursing home order: that they could not require hospitalized residents to be tested for the virus prior to admission or readmission.
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In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo s administration issued a memo instructing hospitals and group homes to expedite the release of asymptomatic group home residents back to their communal living sites. The order may have had terrible consequences. State data obtained by CBS News shows the virus ravaged group homes in the state, infecting more than 20%, or one in five, of their residents.
More than 34,500 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities live in group homes in New York, and there have been 552 COVID-19 deaths reported as of March 7, with 6,934 residents testing positive since 2020, according to the data provided by the state s Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, the agency that oversees support services and group homes.
NYC councilman Joe Borelli says there may be enough votes to impeach the governor in the state assembly and senate.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s administration ordered homes for people with developmental disabilities to accept coronavirus patients and never rescinded the order.
The April 10 directive, which mirrored the Cuomo administration s controversial order to nursing homes, also told homes for people with developmental disabilities that they could not require hospitalized residents to be tested for coronavirus prior to admission or readmission.
Five hundred fifty-two residents at homes for people with developmental disabilities have died of coronavirus, the New York Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) told Fox News on Monday.
It gets worse: Cuomo ordered homes for developmentally disabled to admit COVID-positive patients, too
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Ed MorrisseyPosted at 12:20 pm on March 9, 2021
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As if Andrew Cuomo’s policies didn’t have a high enough body count. New York’s embattled governor ordered facilities housing the developmentally disabled to admit COVID-19 patients too, mirroring the policy he ordered for nursing homes. Unlike the latter, however, Cuomo never rescinded this policy and it might have resulted in hundreds of deaths in those facilities:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration ordered homes for people with developmental disabilities to accept coronavirus patients and never rescinded the order.