Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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De Blasio: Hospitalized coronavirus patients should return to nursing homes


Mayor Bill de Blasio said some hospitalized patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus should still return to their nursing homes — even though they risk exposing other elderly residents to the deadly bug.
“If the better care in that individual case is the hospital of course that’s a go to option, but there’s going to be a time when a nursing home could be the better care if it’s set up that way,” de Blasio insisted on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
MSNBC Host Willie Geist had asked de Blasio if the order issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow patients with coronavirus to leave hospitals and go back into nursing homes was a mistake, given that the death toll at those facilities surged to 4,813 earlier this week — nearly a quarter of all fatalities in the state.
“The whole question is always where can a senior citizen get the best support, the best care and sometimes that is of course a hospital and sometimes that is a place where they are known and where they can be supported by people who actually have a relationship with them,” de Blasio answered.
“I don’t think it’s black and white,” he said.
The state regulates nursing homes, and de Blasio pledged for the second week to work with the governor to address the galling situation in these facilities, but offered no specifics.
“I don’t like seeing what’s happening in the nursing homes. I want to see change,” de Blasio said.

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