NY Post
New York health officials were warned in writing that a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show.
Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.
“We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails reviewed by The Post.
He was denied.
“I was told those facilities were only for hospitals” to send their overflow patients, Tuchman said.
At the time Tuchman sent his plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center were full and the Comfort — which had just been reconfigured to treat up to 500 COVID-19 patients — had a mere 62 on board.
Adding insult to injury, the Navy hospital ship wound up treating just 179 patients before Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday said it was no longer needed.
So I ask again, but to #PresidentCuomo and the New York State Dept. Of Health and not when but why haven't they. Although Javits was available and had plenty of beds.
Update: We should all ask FEMA, the Department of Defense and the President too, looks like Javits went to waste as well.
Gothamist
The federal government is moving forward with plans to shutter the little-used field hospital inside the Javits Center, as the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York continues to decline. The USNS Comfort, also practically empty, is expected to soon depart as well, President Donald Trump announced earlier this week.
"We are encouraged by the data which suggest the curve is flattening in New York and we are working with the city and state to begin the strategic drawdown of resources," a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Gothamist on Friday.
The spokesperson said there was no set date for either closure. But according to a FEMA official who spoke with ABC News, the Navy ship will leave New York as soon as April 30th. The Javits Center is slated to close on April 30th, according to the unnamed official.
The two facilities have treated 1,100 patients in total, and never came close to approaching their full capacity. As of Friday, just 32 patients were receiving care aboard the Comfort, which has space for 1,000 people, the FEMA spokesperson said. Of the 2,500 beds inside the Javits Center reserved for COVID-19 patients, only 141 were full.
Hospital workers have previously complained about the strict intake procedures at the two Department of Defense facilities, pointing to a 25-point checklist that excluded many would-be patients from being transferred from overrun hospitals, according to the Post.
25 comments:
Troll With A Comment said...
Fredo's brother was to busy playing with his nipple studs to care about the Elderly !
Looking at the whole situation now, Trump handled the pandemic perfectly.
Looking at the whole situation. I have to change to post headline.
JQ. Please watch your language in that headline. Not needed. Thanks.
Re Javits and The Comfort: better safe than sorry.
Wonderful Young Bartender said...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the lone House Democrat on Thursday to vote against the $484 billion coronavirus relief package. They don't care about you wake up !
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
@Anon re: language.
It's not in the headline, it's in the tweet.
Sorry, but I work blue.
Dear Leader knew this from the beginning. This epidemic is nothing more than some over hyped fake news that can be solved with a bottle of Clorox and a bit of true American know how. Hannity for Mayor!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/coronavirus-lockdown.html?fbclid=IwAR2gzOgnX18WWCKU_tOVwbVCsstNaapQZ1QVwHTWQc-wJrkSRxHLLfOUAeY
America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules - A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics.
Great, rest of America moves forward, the Democrats experiment in 'tomorrow' remains broken.
A lot of talk about Trump getting defeated over the Clorax comment.
He he needs to do is to challenge a Democrat office holder, any Democrat office holder, to try to live a normal life in NYC after this little Democratic Dream has gone up in smoke - like 'go ride the subway.'. Funny how NYC is fast becoming the best arguement to vote Republican.
Play with my hairy legs said...
We are being betrayed by the entire political class end of story !
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/meat-supply-threats-grow-first-181155792.html
As the American political class is deteriorating into 'Trump Derangement Syndrome', just as we need clear thinking across the spectrum we are now facing food shortages.
Our political elites are pathetic. They don't seem to care about 'cooking food' as they instead 'cook' up the latest headlines. In the past 24 hours did you see a sudden wave of "Republicans for Biden". Yea, sure.
They will throw the entire country under the bus to get Trump. Fat chance. (pun intended)
A deBlasio voter said:
"Dear Leader knew this from the beginning. This epidemic is nothing more than some over hyped fake news that can be solved with a bottle of Clorox and a bit of true American know how. Hannity for Mayor!"
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Meanwhile, back in reality:
Asian Flu (H2N2): Worldwide Deaths 1,000,000
Hong Kong Flu (H2N2): Worldwide Deaths 700,000
Covid-19 (Coronavirus): Worldwide Deaths 200,000
Simple quiz for the low IQ types; which of the pandemics noted above, caused the shutdown of the entire US economy for over a month at the cost of 3 Trillion dollars thus far?
I'm still wondering why we never shut down the economy for all those people that died every year from the Flu?
This year alone the CDC estimates Flu deaths at 24,000-61,000 by the end of the season.
How long is America supposed to be held hostage in their homes for what amounts to a bad Flu season in the end?
...don't even get me started on the fact that half of the deaths in the entire USA are out of New York for some reason.
Hummmmmmm..........
Medicare payments: typically, the diagnosis-related group (DRG) lump sum payment would be $5,000 for pneumonia, as in a Flu pneumonia.
But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000
and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.
The CARES Act actually incentivizes the hospitals to list patients as Covid-19 related.
In fact the CDC guidelines make it almost impossible NOT to add the diagnosis of Covid-19 to any and all patients dying as long as there is a positive Covid-19 test result along with all the other co-morbitidy, like terminal cancer, like end-stage renal disease, like massive myocardial infarctions.
Some data again:
California with 40,000,000 Americans: 1,695 Deaths
Texas with 30,000,000 Americans: 648 Deaths
New York with 20,000,000 Americans: 22,275 Deaths
....something fishy there. Something that is not explained by the characteristics of the virus alone.
In fact, the virus continues to be downgraded in its Infected Mortality Rate, in one study, down to the level of...wait for it......the common Flu:
https://padailypost.com/2020/04/20/stanford-study-shows-coronavirus-death-rate-lower-than-feared/
Harry "time to get the F... Back to work" Haller
Wow. Who knew this was all blown out of proportion? Fraudo knew, the MSM who's kissing his gargoyle butt knew. And yet they keep waving the fans of hysteria. Why? What would Judge Judy say? "If it doesn't make sense, it's not true."
Useful idiot Karens are calling on their neighbors for going to the park with their kids (like the Stasi) all the while COVID Fredo, who should've been quarantining, gets to check out his Hamptons construction project on Easter Sunday. Why are the Cuomo's more equal? Are they preparing for Cuomolot in the White House? Trump knows all about the Cuomos' "connections." If you do a little digging - especially expos written in the 1980s - you will too.
REstaurants are dead. Tourism is dead. Immigrants not coming to save the day. Real estate implosion in 1-3 years. NYC is DEAD and the STUPID politicians and media KILLED it.
CUOMO HAS BLOOD ON THIS HANDS
Harry:
It has more to do with population density than total population. Also mode of transportation. Also climate.
Houston and L.A. are spread out, with minimal mass transit and people are dependent on cars. In NYC and North Jersey, people pack into cramped apartments in places like Elmhurst, then pack onto the 7 train.
Further: comparing two states with arid weather and much more sun to NY - a state in a temperate climate, is another factor.
Hothead Haller -at it again.
Read this beaut again: "Asian Flu (H2N2): Worldwide Deaths 1,000,000
Hong Kong Flu (H2N2): Worldwide Deaths 700,000
Covid-19 (Coronavirus): Worldwide Deaths 200,000
Simple quiz for the low IQ types; which of the pandemics noted above, caused the shutdown of the entire US economy for over a month at the cost of 3 Trillion dollars thus far?"
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Since I am now 63 I do remember these outbreaks.
Hong Kong flu and it's mutations did kill an estimated one million people -over a period of three outbreaks from mid 1968 through the 1969-70 school year and again two years later. I remember this period well.
The continental U.S. never experienced a serious enough level that it stressed our hospitals to the extent the current outbreak has. Nor has any outbreak on our shores in living memory been as deadly in such a short period of time.
Fate help us, if this virus gets the same length of time to run as those two did -you'll have your million dead -and it won't all be in some distant place you don't care about.
Statewide, New York has a death rate of 7.6% for this outbreak.
New York City has an even more historically awful 10.6%.
Hopefully, those percentages will go down as more tests reveal the wider infection level. Right now, we are in well into the historic range.
Stop being a bullshitmeister, if you are going to quote numbers GIVE THE FULL PERSPECTIVE including time frame and locations.
Do that, or go back to sleep.
Rob in Manhattan
@Rob in Manhattan the top bullshitmeister....
"Statewide, New York has a death rate of 7.6% for this outbreak."
"New York City has an even more historically awful 10.6%."
Total Bull Shit #FAKENEWS and you know it. Stop spreading Lies you Stupid Jackass...
"Total Bull Shit #FAKENEWS and you know it. Stop spreading Lies you Stupid Jackass..."
Here ya go, stupid trumpster:
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en?fbclid=IwAR3IPLXPcR8C8Wslz9zhMsbEs6Mw_KDKtAim_0vIWFbUAHOFkGUqHklqCtQ Read the NYC dropdown.
And:
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york
Ongoing--real--journalism.
Turn off that talk radio, you are dumb enough already.
Rob in Manhattan
Rob "voted for deBlasio" in Manhattan said:
"Statewide, New York has a death rate of 7.6% for this outbreak.
New York City has an even more historically awful 10.6%."'
Not sure what you're trying to dispute here.
Everything I posted is historical fact. I see you don't dispute that, so what exactly is your point?
That this virus was much worse in NYC?
Does this virus have special powers that make it more virulent in NYC as compared to LA or Houston or Portland?
No, don't be silly, you know what you don't like about what I posted.
You don't like that fact that I'm pointing out the outright HYSTERIA that you and the rest of liberal America just put us all through.
The entire nation was shut down, businesses destroyed, lives destroyed, 3 Trillion in economic damage inflicted, for what?
for a virus that will turn out to be less deadly than other pandemics which did not require the wholesale destruction of American lives.
Face the fact that everything I have posted over the past month has been spot-on.
1.I was right about the Infected Mortality Rate for this virus being similar to Flu:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/25/stanford_university_dr_scott_atlas_virus_panic_induced_by_overestimation_of_fatality_rate_of_infected.html
Estimates are now coming in from Stanford and Oxford researchers in the range of 0.12-0.20 Fatality rate....like a Flu virus
2. I was right about this virus being all over NYC since way before the Pandemic was called in March:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/09/new-york-coronavirus-cases-spread-months-came-europe-study/5120590002/
3. I was right about the fact that this virus would follow Farr's Law of epidemics along a bell curve pattern:
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york
...and I'll be proven right again about this weird statistic that is not explained by the characteristics of the virus alone:
California with 40,000,000 Americans: 1,695 Deaths
Texas with 30,000,000 Americans: 648 Deaths
New York with 20,000,000 Americans: 22,275 Deaths
...hummmmmmmmm, something fishy here in NYC
Try listening to what I'm saying "Rob in Manhattan" and understanding that I know what I'm talking about as it is all based on the scientific method of basing predictions on observation and confirming with empirical evidence and established theory.
Harry "prognosticator" Haller
Haller -at it again.
Being purposefully obtuse again.
"...You don't like that fact that I'm pointing out the outright HYSTERIA that you and the rest of liberal America just put us all through."
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See, that paragraph points out the underlying position of all these types.
This pandemic reduced to another stupid culture war skirmish.
Tell this shit to your local E.R staff and if you are so convinced it is just 'Liberal hysteria" -get on a plane and go peddle your nonsense to the professionals who were overwhelmed by the onslaught of this menace in Europe and Asia.
Bottom line with types like you is the dawning reality that your four-year experiment in retro-politics is coming to an end next January 20th.
Get over it old man, that was going to happen, pandemic or not.
BTW: This situation has been a disaster for me, and my business partners. We've just closed a 22 year location and are looking at three more that may not make it another month if things don't thaw out a bit. We and dozens of our employees have real reason to want this over. Unlike types like you, we don't live on S.S. checks.
Rob in Manhattan
Rob: sorry about those failing businesses, but maybe it has nothing re to do with your progressivism and cultural Marxism than covid.
You know you were a part of the chorus of libs calling Trump racist for shutting down the flights.
Directing every issue into racism and sexism is a Globalist tactic, whether you realize it or not. It's anarcho tyranny. And globalism is what caused this mess. Live by globalism, die by globalism.
Spineless Democrat said...
@Rob in Shit NYC
Are you disgusted by the idea that you should have to "tolerate" someone ?
"Unlike types like you, we don't live on S.S. checks"
"Get over it old man"
Robbie you attack people all the time here because they have a different views !
Who the Hell do you think you are ? So much for the tolerant left idiots !
Rob in Manhattan the top bullshitmeister said...
@Rob in Manhattan said... "Everything I posted is historical fact"
The facts change every day incase you didn't notice Jack Ass.
More Leftist #FAKENEWS Bullshit again !
Rob "who voted for deBlasio" in Manhattan said:
"This pandemic reduced to another stupid culture war skirmish.
Tell this shit to your local E.R staff and if you are so convinced it is just 'Liberal hysteria" -get on a plane and go peddle your nonsense to the professionals who were overwhelmed by the onslaught of this menace in Europe and Asia."
You're speaking from the NYC bubble here and you don't even realize it.
Once again, I will state that the virus obviously devastated the hospital infrastructure in NYC and has, for some reason, killed more people in NYC than any other city on the planet. (this is the fishy part).
So nobody is disputing the actual impact of the virus on NYC.
What is in dispute is the reason it impacted this city so severely (liberal mismanagement)
and
the remedy employed to mitigate its course through the ENTIRE nation.
Again, Texas has 30,000,000 Americans, but 749 deaths (Not 23,473 like NY).
Florida has 2 million more Americans (including a huge number of New Yorkers, but has 1,218 total deaths (Not 23,473 like NY).
Yet, despite these statistics, you and liberals like you, insist on keeping everyone inside their homes for months, closing the economy at the cost of Trillions and plunging this nation into an abyss.
And you know why; because it's displaced Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The world must be ending because Trump is to blame for everything. That's your reasoning and most democrats reasoning.
You want to hold the rest of the nation hostage to this virus, until your prophecy of doom is fulfilled.
Another statistic, so those reading don't think I'm just spouting right wing nonsense; California, the largest state in the nation in terms of population and our most liberal state;
40,000,000 Americans, with 1,914 deaths
Now even California is in open revolt against destroying their businesses and economy.
Bottom line, Rob in Manhattan, is that it's time to move ahead as a nation and stop trying to keep this city, and the nation, hostage to a deadly virus that revealed the underlying decay caused by the severe democrat mismanagement of this city, and turns out to be about as deadly as the Flu...exactly what President Trump was saying from the beginning.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
"A hundred deaths out of 48,000-81,000 infections corresponds to an infection fatality rate of 0.12-0.2%."
Harry "Democrat De-Programmer" Haller
I Love it when Mr. Haller slams a Liberal Idiot with facts !
Makes my day Robbie !
Meat head Robie in Manhattan is a political infant compared to Harry the Great !
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