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Old May 22, 2020, 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by GadgetFreak
I think that 50% in nursing homes is quite high, at least in the NYC area. I think it is closer to 25% to 30%. The current total is about 5800 in care facilities out of 23,195 total as of today which is just about 25%

This is a page, updated frequently, of deaths in care facilities in NYS. It has a breakdown by county and by individual facility.

https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics...g_home_acf.pdf

Yeah it didn't sound right to me.

But I've seen some criticism that Cuomo made some fateful decision to force patients who tested positive back to nursing homes. Don't know if that's true or not but what's being implied is that he sent those people to certain deaths.
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