Nursing Home Patients, Staff, Visitors

Florida 2020

4/13/2020  Florida to Aggressively Test Nursing Home Patients, Staff

5/20/2020 Coronavirus Crisis: Ron DeSantis Got Florida’s COVID-19 Strategy Right

5/23/2020  Florida had right coronavirus response — but media won't tell you that

"March 15th...we signed the executive order to, one, ban visitation in the nursing homes, and two, ban the reintroduction of a COVID-positive patient back into a nursing home.”..."established several COVID-19-only nursing homes"

New York 2021

2/2021 Cuomo Defends Controversial Nursing Home Directive, Blames Staffers, Visitors for Virus Spread (Florida banned visitation on March 15, 2020)

2/10/2021 Cuomo sets up 19 COVID-only nursing homes (Florida did the same in the spring of 2020-almost a year earlier)

2/15/2021 Over 9k Covid patients released to nursing homes after hospital stays (Florida banned this on March 15, 2020)

Nursing Home Visitations

Florida 2020

5/14/2020 DeSantis Wants To Clear Way For Nursing Home Visitors

New York 2021

2/9/2021 Broken-hearted families ask: When can we visit nursing homes again?

Vaccinating The Elderly

Florida January 2021

1/25/2021 Gov. DeSantis: Florida will finish vaccinating in nursing homes by month's end  

New York February 2021

2/11/2021 New York to Hospitals: Vaccinate Staff Before the Elderly

The Result as of February 16, 2021

Compared to Florida, 34 states had a higher rate of all-cause mortality from 2019 to 2020, per capita. States with higher-than-average increases almost assuredly saw increased deaths resulting from lockdown policies, not just from COVID.

(NY's total increase in per capita mortality is DOUBLE that of Florida and the national average.)

Flashback to July 18, 2020

Fauci holds up New York as model for fighting coronavirus — 'They did it correctly'

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