Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.
For example, on March 25, 2020, New York ordered: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
“Protecting the rights of some of society’s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country’s most important obligations,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband. “We must ensure they are adequately cared for with dignity and respect and not unnecessarily put at risk.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly. New York’s death rate by population is the second highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people. New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people – the highest in the nation. In contrast, Texas’s death rate by population is 380 deaths per million people; and Texas has just over 11,000 deaths, though its population is 50 percent larger than New York and has many more recorded cases of COVID-19 – 577,537 cases in Texas versus 430,885 cases in New York. Florida’s COVID-19 death rate is 480 deaths per million; with total deaths of 10,325 and a population slightly larger than New York.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others. The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents.
On March 3, 2020, the Attorney General announced the Justice Department’s National Nursing Home Initiative. This is a comprehensive effort by the department, led by the Elder Justice Initiative and in strong partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that uses every available tool to pursue nursing homes that provide substandard care to their residents. As announced on April 10, 2020, the department is also investigating the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where COVID-19 has taken the lives of at least 76 residents.
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16 Responses
The Chair, the Needle, or a rope???
Can’t be that Andrew evil eyes cuomo is guilty of this
About time!
To many people died because of neglect including my own father!
So may, just maybe, Cuomo and his ilk will be distracted from their persistent attacks on Trump, Republicans, and justice by the desperate need to tend to their own legal woes and defenses. May all the rest of the libs find themselves in similar hot water.
Nothing will happen to him. Laws apply only to Republicans.
Go after Cuomo, and lock him up with Hillary. Meanwhile this shall augment New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan to all go Red come November 3rd.
Good Riddance o this Mass Murderer Cuomo.
Clearly, the investigations of the FBI ain’t working out for the Trumpkopf so they had their choice between going back to Hillary’s emails, Benghazi or finding some way to distract from Trump’s miserable record on the virus.
Hope he gets life behind bars
Cuomo has a lot of blood on his hands !
Sof ganev l’tlia
May he perish like he made others perish.
Lock him up.
Death penalty for this filthy lying mass murderer!!!
This will work out well for Cuomo and very badly for the Trumpies. Cuomo will be able to make public all the evil attempts by the Trump Administration to obstruct deliveries of medical equipment to Democratic states.
charliehall & Fakehadorah, you are doing a great service on this forum to further discredit Marxist Democrats by displaying your stupidity.
Not only did Coumo y”s send covid-19 infected patients to nursing homes, he barred healthy people from visiting their relatives in hospitals, even if they were all the people instead of cr eating guidelines like wearing ppe, for example. People in hospitals, rehabs and nursing homes were, and to a great extent still are, isolated and alone on their own. So many people have died alone, can you imagine their anguish and the anguish of their relatives? As someone whose relative died alone in the hospital, I will never forgive Coumo. He should have a misah meshinah and suffer what all these people together suffered and are still suffering because of him.