Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Cuomo facing scrutiny over nursing home policies during pandemic" video.

@osric1730 You transfer staff from nursing homes and acutes to care for the elderly in places like the Javits and the USNS Comfort. Acute hospitals had imported staff from out of state to care for a tidal wave that never came, so they can do the subacute care needed by some of the elderly. It's not like RNs, LPN,s and aides have no training caring for the elderly. They did it every day before Covid showed up. The problem is Cuomo had his own answer - send them back to nursing homes. These were patients already diagnosed with the virus, not just elderly requiring ADL care. There were answers unless you're a hammer. Then, everything looked like a nail.
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@coreycannon6590 So I shut it down, yet here you are as the 49th reply to this thread. do you see even a minor inconsistency in that? My "perfect solution", what ever that means, is your characterization of something I just don't do, since we have no perfect solutions. Now, if you want to discuss the facts you think you have right and I have wrong, I'm happy to listen.
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@osric1730 The question was nursing home patients that were transferred to acute hospitals with medical problems other than Covid, who got Covid at the hospital, and were then discharged back to nursing homes before they had cleared the virus. They were the ones who were patient zero in NY nursing homes, as they would have been in any state if the governor told nursing homes they had to accept the patients or get their licenses pulled. Elderly patients testing positive with no symptoms should have been sent to the Javits Center facility for the fourteen day isolation period. Acute hospitals have had the training and had the equipment to care for infectious patients. With very few exceptions, nursing homes don't.
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@coreycannon6590 Okay, I didn't read your response as agreeing with me. I really don't have time to go through all the comments now to track down what I said about the hospital ship. My feeling at the time, based on what I know about how hospitals in crisis run, was that most hospitals in NYC weren't in crisis, and some judicious moving of patients would generally relieve the stresses on those that were near a breaking point. Instead, Trump got bamboozled by Cuomo into sending him free hospital beds. No governor in his right mind would turn that down, need or not. The utter waste of an emergency activation of two hospital ships now falls on Trump's shoulders, not Cuomo or Newsom.
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