Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that his state did ‘the exact opposite’ of the New York government’s Andrew Cuomo in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as the scandal in the nursing home threatens to to overwhelm the Democratic government.
DeSantis, who is widely praised for protecting the elderly population in Florida, told Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday that his government is considering taking care of the “tip of the spear” after caring for nursing home residents. of the transmission of the virus.
DeSantis: “We had the exact opposite order in Florida. We said you can not send a COVID-positive nursing home resident back to the nursing home because it is the most vulnerable population and you will obviously endanger it, but what we after the first few weeks, we have also established COVID nursing units, and if you have someone tested positive at a nursing home, it can be safely transferred and isolated to protect the other residents.
“We really considered it the point of the spear when dealing with COVID, because … it tends to kill people who are very elderly and very ill.”
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‘About the middle to the end of March we have everyone got models that say, ‘Yyou are not going to be there anymore hospital beds within five days. “Every governor has the models. I questioned the assumptions among the models, I did not think it was valid and I said: ‘I’m not going to put together our policy on it’, but even if I was wrong, I would build more beds somewhere than to throw these elderly people back into the fire of a nursing home where they could infect and infect many other people.
“So it was just an important judgment that we all had to make and I think Florida did it right and obviously other states took a different path.”