Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
A few weeks ago I wrote that An independent investigation into the order by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, requiring nursing home residents with COVID-19 be sent back to nursing homes possibly led to thousands of nursing home resident deaths.
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| Governor Newsom |
According to Fairley, Rep Steve Scalise wrote that the California Department of Public Health issued the guidance on March 30 requiring nursing homes to accept residents who were contagious with COVID-19.
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| Cindy Sheehan |
“We would like to know why this policy was put into effect when staff were being furloughed from hospitals and why were regulations on visitors tightened up while standards were loosened and these are standards of care at some nursing homes that were already not that great,” said Sheehan who lives in Solano. “And why is the policy continuing?”Policies forcing nursing homes to accept residents with a known contagious virus likely led to many more COVID-19 deaths. It should not be surprising that these policies led to a greater percentage of nursing home residents becoming sick with COVID-19 and then based on the fact that many of these people already had a compromised immune system, many elderly people died by COVID-19.
Independent investigations into these decisions need to be done, especially since the number of COVID-19 elder deaths is not only tragic but also a form of elder abuse.
