posted May 03, 2020 10:35 AM            

One of the most stupid edicts I've ever seen to send Covid-19 positive patients into a setting occupied by the most vulnerable Americans to coronavirus. No wonder there's so many deaths in New York.

Andrew Cuomo Under Fire for Directive Requiring Nursing Homes to Accept Coronavirus Patients
Joel B. Pollak
26 Apr 2020

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing rising criticism over a controversial directive in March requiring the state's nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals, when few had the equipment or training to deal with those patients.

The directive, dated March 25, stated (original emphasis): No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.....

posted May 03, 2020 08:38 PM            

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Originally posted by iQ:
Broadly, I agree with Hypatia.

Meanwhile, CDC's latest update: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

The Flu and Flu related Deaths average 4000 a week. So 64000 deaths out of 90000+ till
May 1st are from Flu. This makes the 66000+ deaths from COVID-19 or COVID-19 triggered complications extremely accurate.
Imagine if 66000+ Americans had died in addition to 60000 from Fl;u under Obama?
A million "AR-15 open Carry" White Bikers would have surrounded the White House.

Though it is not a reason for Alarmist shutting down of USA, it is still a massive failure on the part of the US Government because South Korea started with COVID-19 deaths at the same time and had fewer than 300 deaths, with lesser resources than USA.

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No 66,000 is not a high number for a population of 328 million. 606,000 died last year of Cancer in the USA ALONE, around 647,000 die each year from heart problems in the USA alone, I still don't know anyone personally who has died of this. My husband has a friend and him and his fiancee think they got it and it took them like 3 weeks to recover and they recovered.

As for South Korea, I don't buy this number at all. They have a lot less people than the USA (our population is 6.35 times larger than theirs) and their mortality rate for Influenza is 2,900 per year so 250 does not add UP at all. Either we are miss reporting deaths from coronavirus or they are, we are clearly not using the same measures to report coronavirus related deaths data.

See journal article below:

"Influenza-Associated Excess Mortality in South Korea

Results

During the study period, influenza was associated with an average of 2,900 excess deaths per year. The impact of influenza on mortality was significantly higher in older people; the overall all-cause excess annual mortality rate per 100,000 people was 5.97 (95% CI=4.89, 7.19), whereas it was 46.98 (95% CI=36.40, 55.82) for adults aged ≥65 years. It also greatly varied from year to year, ranging from 2.04 in 2009–2010 to 18.76 in 2011–2012.
Conclusions

The impact of influenza on mortality in Korea is substantial, particularly among the elderly and the rural population. More-comprehensive studies may be needed to estimate the full impact of influenza."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805525/