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The order by Governor Cuomo sending infected patients into nursing homes was preemptive, which then led to strain on the health care system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_ho...

It’s worse because then they go and infect the rest of that vulnerable group.

I can understand not being able to treat them but at least isolate them…

This is the first I’ve heard of this. If it’s true they were sending known-covid positive cases into nursing homes, whoever gave the order should be tried for mass murder.

Unbelievable!

It is true, and Cuomo ordered it. Fully agreed that he should be tried for some serious crime. https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/the-hospital-lobby...

According to...well, everyone, that was a NYS thing, not NYC specifically.

More broadly it was a nationwide CDC advisory and not only that, the same shuffling of elderly infected back into nursing facilities happened in countries across the (mostly western) world. Probably based on shared implementations of policy briefing/ pandemic planning documents.