As more than 97,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in a pandemic that has pushed staffs to the limit

As more than 97,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in a pandemic that has pushed staffs to the limit, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of death separate from the virus has quietly claimed tens of thousands more, often because overburdened workers haven’t been able to give them the care they need.

The Department of Justice is expanding its inquiry on #nursinghome deaths in NY. 

Now, they are looking for the numbers from private facilities being hidden by the Cuomo administration.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-andrew-cuomo-elections-nursing-homes-5212e305921c250eb6cba4f6f246fc4d

https://www.justice.gov/crt/civil-rights-institutionalized-persons

According to a registry maintained by the state Health Department, only 30 of New York’s 622 nursing homes fit that description – a mix of facilities owned by the state, New York City and various counties. They represent 7 percent of the state’s bed capacity.

Although spread around the state, they are not a representative cross-section. Fewer than half are located in the greater New York City region, where the pandemic was overwhelmingly concentrated, and none is in the Bronx, which was the hardest-hit part of the state.

As shown in the table below, almost half of the public homes have lost residents to coronavirus, including 72 deaths reported at the Long Island State Veterans Home, which is part of the state’s Stony Brook University. As of this week, however, 16 of the 30 public homes had reported no COVID-19 deaths at all. Overall, the public homes accounted for 317 reported coronavirus deaths, which is 5 percent of the statewide toll in nursing homes.

To be clear, these figures are based on the state’s flawed counting methodology, which omits residents who died after being transferred to hospitals. This system has tallied just under 6,500 nursing home coronavirus deaths, but the true toll is likely to be thousands higher.

ANOTHER SEPARATE INVESTIGATION BY FIVE FEDERAL AGENCIES INTO TWO SISTER NURSING HOMES.

DOJ CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OPENED AN INQURY INTO FIVE STATES REGARDING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS INTO THE NURSING HOME. 

How New York’s missteps let Covid-19 overwhelm the US City leaders saw the threat but did not act: why arguments and rivalries among politicians and power groups allowed disaster to unfold

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New Rochelle’s mayor watched as the National Guard rolled into the commuter hub north of New York City, wearing camouflage that offered no disguise in suburbia. 

A week after a local lawyer had been diagnosed with coronavirus, a mile-wide containment zone was being drawn around the virus’s first known superspreader event on the US’s east coast. 

After a sleepless night, Mayor Noam Bramson called his city manager to spill out his worries. On March 10, he thought New Rochelle’s lockdown looked “dramatic”. But within days businesses and schools were shuttering, and a deadly quiet was descending across the US.