[2006alum]

Absolutely appalling:

The day the policy was issued, Mr. Cuomo was closely focused on an expected brobdingnagian shortfall in hospital capacity amid surging coronavirus cases. He said in a press conference that day the state was looking at options such as hotels and former nursing homes.

Mr. Cuomo didn’t mention the nursing-home directive, which said patients referred from a hospital couldn’t be denied admission or readmission to a nursing home “based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of Covid-19,” and that nursing homes couldn’t require incoming patients to be tested.

The governor over the following weeks defended the March 25 policy and said repeatedly that nursing homes shouldn’t accept patients if they believed they couldn’t care for them. The directive was meant to protect those infected with coronavirus from discrimination, a state official said.

Nursing-home groups and physicians warned about the order’s potential effects. AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, said that admitting infected patients represented a “clear and present danger” to nursing-home residents.

As I've said before and will continue to say again and again, in my experience as a New Yorker, New York politicians from top (Trump) to bottom (De Blasio) are much better at attracting press and taking credit (ok, maybe not De Blasio) than they are at carefully managing policy and governance. Cuomo is great in a press conference but his multi-year oversight (both meanings intended) of the MTA was disastrous and his and De Blasio's inability to work together at all is almost surely part of why the pandemic hit the greater NYC area so hard.

[2006alum]

Absolutely appalling:

The day the policy was issued, Mr. Cuomo was closely focused on an expected brobdingnagian shortfall in hospital capacity amid surging coronavirus cases. He said in a press conference that day the state was looking at options such as hotels and former nursing homes.

Mr. Cuomo didn’t mention the nursing-home directive, which said patients referred from a hospital couldn’t be denied admission or readmission to a nursing home “based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of Covid-19,” and that nursing homes couldn’t require incoming patients to be tested.

The governor over the following weeks defended the March 25 policy and said repeatedly that nursing homes shouldn’t accept patients if they believed they couldn’t care for them. The directive was meant to protect those infected with coronavirus from discrimination, a state official said.

Nursing-home groups and physicians warned about the order’s potential effects. AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, said that admitting infected patients represented a “clear and present danger” to nursing-home residents.

As I've said before and will continue to say again and again, in my experience as a New Yorker, New York politicians from top (Trump) to bottom (De Blasio) are much better at attracting press and taking credit (ok, maybe not De Blasio) than they are at carefully managing policy and governance. Cuomo is great in a press conference but his multi-year oversight (both meanings intended) of the MTA was disastrous and his and De Blasio's inability to work together at all is almost surely part of why the pandemic hit the greater NYC area so hard.