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Old 05-22-2020, 02:36 PM   #32805
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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins View Post
Releasing convalescing patients to skilled nursing facilities is a regular part of the process. It's done to free up bed space. If those patients were kept in the hospital then the hospitals would have overflowed.

Again, the devil is in the details.

The article says 1/3 of NY's deaths were in nursing homes. Louisiania, which barred COVID patients from nursing homes for 30 days, actually has a higher proportion of nursing home deaths, 40%.

Was this the right decision? I don't know--the optics are certainly bad. But it's not as cut-and-dried as the headline suggests.
I understand where you are coming from but releasing infected people into a pit of ultra-high risk people seems to be rather self-defeating.
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