Fox News’ medical contributor, Dr. Marc Siegel slammed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, calling his actions “shameful”. A report by the Democratic Attorney General of the state found that the number of nursing home residents who died with COVID-19 last year was up to 50% higher than initial reports.
On Fox & Friends, Siegel added that nursing homes ‘are never really the right place’ to treat the contagious disease, because a lack of knowledge, personal protective equipment and testing has meant the readmission of patients into nursing homes such as ‘tinder’ , similar, was. to make a ‘fire’ in terms of how fast the virus was allowed to spread.
NEW YORK HOME DEATH DEATH LIMITED 12K, CUOMO HEALTH LEVY
Siegel claims that the East Coast Javits Center or hospital ships would have been a ‘perfect place’ to place patients due to the greater capacity and ability to properly evaluate people infected with COVID-19 and to treat.
Asked by Brian Kilmeade whether nursing homes are responsible for COVID-19 deaths, Siegel agrees that a lack of communication within the facilities in New York hinders patient safety.
“You were not allowed in the nursing home. Remember, you could not see your mother, your father, you could not even look at them through a glass. Not knowing if they were COVID-19 or even dying is the worst possible idea and that’s what was going on in New York, ‘Siegel said.
The Fox News medical associate concluded that ensuring that nursing home patients in New York and across the country are vaccinated is critical to dramatically lower mortality rates and prevent another disaster.
After the Attorney General in New York released their scathing report and acknowledged that Andrew Cuomo and other officials underestimated the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes, Dr. Howard Zucker, Cuomo’s head of health, released figures updating suspected deaths in nursing homes and hospitals. to nearly 13,000.
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Cuomo’s government has received a bipartisan backlash over the new reports and has been ridiculed for claiming ‘incompetent government is killing people’ in MSNBC and CNN interviews.