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Survivors of more than 100 veterans who died or were sickened at a public veterans home in Queens, NY, are suing the state Department of Health over its failure to act “timely” to protect residents from a deadly COVID-19 outbreak or implement “basic” infection control practices.
More than 100 veterans died at a care facility in New York City after a devastating covid outbreak which was not contained by bosses, according to a lawsuit.
The suit, filed on Nov. 4 in federal court, alleges the State Veterans’ Home did not follow COVID protocols and violated residents’ Fourteenth Amendment right “to conditions of reasonable care and safety” by failing to “implement basic infection control protocols and provide adequate medical care to the State Veterans’ Home’s residents.”
The lawsuit claims that at least 350 veterans and staff living in the facility had got infected with Covid during the pandemic.