"The Dept. of Health...argued unconvincingly that the admission of 6,326 COVID-positive residents during the period the Health directive was in effect had no impact. That cannot be the case, and has now been shown not to be the case,” the NYSBA Task Force on Nursing Homes & Long-Term Care said.
"State officials now say more than 15,000 residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities were confirmed or presumed to have died from Covid-19 since March of last year..."
"it just never happened in New York where we needed to say to a nursing home, 'we need you to take this person even though they're COVID-positive. It never happened"