For months, New York sent more than 4,300 recovering elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes because of a Coumo directive. I don't get how this isn't the biggest news. The core issues aren't the beaches, the parks or the unmasked joggers passing by.https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-count-4300-virus-patients-ny-nursing-homes-70825470 …
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We're cancelling outdoor summer camps all over despite significant clear benefits (mental health; immunity; socialization; economic activity) with as low a risk profile as I can imagine (driving to camp probably higher risk) and there's still not enough focus on the elderly.
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I'm also not saying let the young get infected. There really isn't enough focus on what "surviving" COVID means for younger people. But so much energy is focused on activities that we have little to no known cases of transmission and are as low-risk as life gets, and yet... sigh.
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We aren't sure when the infectiousness stops. 14 days is a guideline but there are cases to either side—some longer. But sending anyone who needs extra care/precautions to nursing homes where they were already barely managing things was a bad idea. https://twitter.com/ThisWasMash/status/1263904892952948737 …
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Was about to tweet on that!
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Because...in this country...we don't really care about our elderly. Even before this...the condition of facilities that treated the elder was...sub par at best.
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A choice was made early on by many that protecting the elderly was only possible by lockdowns, as there was no meaningful way to completely separate the elderly from the rest of society. The difficulty is in now shifting the debate to mitigation rather than risk elimination.
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I'm just finding this thread, but the day you tweeted this is when L.A. County FINALLY "realized" it needed to test all our care homes instead of just the 1/3 they had so far 2 MONTHS into shutdown. Created a special task force AFTER letting over 1,000 NH residents die.
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