EDITORIAL_ Forcing nursing homes to take coronavirus patients is just insane — and evil

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Forcing nursing homes to take coronavirus patients is just insane — and evil

By Post Editorial Board
April 22, 2020 | 7:17pm



Kings Harbor Multicare Center in the Bronx is one of many facilities across New York where multiple patients succumbed to the coronavirus over the past few weeks.
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Of all the missteps in the early days of the coronavirus crisis, New York state’s Health Department may have committed the worst: ordering nursing homes to accept residents who tested positive for COVID-19.

Instead of quarantining the folks most vulnerable to the disease, the state encouraged its spread: 85 percent of the state’s confirmed deaths from the bug are people over 60, with nearly a quarter of all corona fatalities coming in nursing or adult-care facilities — and at least 2,210 such deaths tallied in the city.

And when asked why these residents and workers weren’t better protected, Gov. Andrew Cuo­mo answered Wednesday, it “wasn’t our job.” It was up to privately run homes to keep infected people isolated; if they needed help, the governor magnanimously offered, they should’ve asked.

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