Letter: Where else but nursing homes should those patients have been sent?
to the editor
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FILE. Letter writer says, It seems to me the only obvious place for them to go was back to the nursing homes. Not a good choice, but the only obvious one. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Service
I’ve been reading Chris Churchill’s columns about the nursing home deaths here in New York state and, while I m not an apologist for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, especially regarding not being truthful about the nursing home deaths, I find I have trouble accepting some other of Churchill s assertions. The one I find most troublesome is his railing about Cuomo’s order that nursing homes accept stable COVID-19 patients from hospitals. Given the situation at the time with hospital rooms at a premium, just where would Churchill have proposed those people be sent? Back home where their families were not capable of handling them? Otherwise, why were they in nursing h