Comments - Lockdown agendas - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift2024-03-28T18:17:26Zhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A1117182&xn_auth=noNew York underreported COVID-…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2021-01-28:3863141:Comment:11182222021-01-28T16:10:07.209ZM. Difatohttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/MDifato
<h1 class="articleHeader--headline">New York underreported COVID-19 nursing home deaths by as much as 50%, AG report says</h1>
<p>ALBANY — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday (January 28, 2021)<span> </span><a href="https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021-nursinghomesreport-final.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">released a searing report</a><span> </span>that found the state Department of Health underreported nursing home deaths related to the coronavirus by as much as 50…</p>
<h1 class="articleHeader--headline">New York underreported COVID-19 nursing home deaths by as much as 50%, AG report says</h1>
<p>ALBANY — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday (January 28, 2021)<span> </span><a href="https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021-nursinghomesreport-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a searing report</a><span> </span>that found the state Department of Health underreported nursing home deaths related to the coronavirus by as much as 50 percent.</p>
<p>The 76-page report released Thursday morning follows a months-long investigation by the attorney general's office's into allegations of patient neglect and other conduct that jeopardized the health and safety of residents and employees, including information that nursing homes failed to properly isolate residents who tested positive for COVID-19 and demanded sick employees continue to work or face retaliation or termination.</p>
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<p class="block description-block"><span class="block-inner">The Office of the Attorney General's investigation into COVID-19 related nursing home deaths in New York found there were approximately 50% more deaths than publicly reported by the state Department of Health. The AG's figures include deaths of nursing home residents who were sent to the hospital and presumed COVID-19 deaths.</span></p>
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<div class="bc-bars"><div class="bc-bar-bg dw-rect"><div class="bc-bar-inner dw-rect"><div class="bc-bar-label chart-text value label inside inverted"><span>1,229</span></div>
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<div class="bc-bars"><div class="bc-bar-bg dw-rect"><div class="bc-bar-inner dw-rect"><div class="bc-bar-label chart-text value label inside inverted"><span>1,914</span></div>
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<div id="footer" class="dw-chart-footer"><div class="footer-left"><span class="footer-block byline-block"><span class="block-inner"><span class="byline-caption">Chart:</span><span> </span>Cathleen F. Crowley / Times Union</span></span><span> </span><span class="footer-block source-block"><span class="block-inner"><span class="source-caption">Source:</span><span> </span><span class="source">New York State Office of the Attorney General</span></span></span></div>
<div class="footer-left"><p>Beyond the health department's undercounting of deaths, the investigation also found nursing homes' lack of compliance with infection-control protocols put residents at risk, and facilities that had lower pre-pandemic staffing ratings had higher COVID-19 fatality rates. James' office continues to investigate the allegations, including a deeper examination of practices at more than 20 nursing homes where reported conduct "presented particular concern."</p>
<p>"As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate," James said in a news release unveiling the report. "While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents."</p>
<p>In early March 2020, the office began receiving complaints of COVID-related neglect and on April 23, the attorney general set up a hotline to take complaints of abuse and neglect. According to James' office, the hotline received 770 complaints through Aug. 3 and another 179 complaints through Nov. 16.</p>
<p>The deeper investigations into specific nursing homes are as a result of preliminary findings which include:</p>
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<li>Insufficient personal protective equipment for nursing home staff.</li>
<li>Insufficient COVID-19 testing for residents and staff during the early stages of the pandemic, which put residents at increased risk of harm.</li>
<li>The current state reimbursement model gives a financial incentive to owners of for-profit nursing homes to transfer funds to related parties instead of investing in higher levels of staffing and equipment, instead increasing their bottom lines. </li>
<li>Lack of nursing home compliance with executive order requiring communication with family members.</li>
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<p><span>The report also found that New York's guidance from March requiring admission of COVID-19 patients into nursing homes may have increased the risk of others at the congregate facilities contracting the virus, a notion that a state-commissioned, internal report released in last year dismissed as a possibility.</span></p>
<p><span>Source: <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-underreported-COVID-19-nursing-home-15904836.php" target="_blank">https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-underreported-COVID-19-nursing-home-15904836.php</a></span></p>
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</div> Turkey quarantines 4,600 peop…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2020-12-22:3863141:Comment:11178662020-12-22T14:21:29.096ZJuan F Martinezhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/JuanFMartinez
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Turkey quarantines 4,600 people arriving from UK amid fears ‘highly contagious’ Covid strain will spread</strong></span></p>
<p>Turkey’s health minister has confirmed that the authorities have quarantined thousands of airline passengers who arrived from the UK on and after December 14 as a new Covid strain sees Britain increasingly isolated.</p>
<p>In a tweet on Tuesday morning, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that 4,603 people had been…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Turkey quarantines 4,600 people arriving from UK amid fears ‘highly contagious’ Covid strain will spread</strong></span></p>
<p>Turkey’s health minister has confirmed that the authorities have quarantined thousands of airline passengers who arrived from the UK on and after December 14 as a new Covid strain sees Britain increasingly isolated.</p>
<p>In a tweet on Tuesday morning, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that 4,603 people had been identified as entering the country from the UK since December 14 and were being made to isolate.</p>
<p>“As of December 14, all passengers arriving from England have been identified. The information of 4,603 passengers was transferred to the system and they were isolated in their residences and hotels,” Koca wrote.</p>
<p>“PCR tests of these passengers are carried out under the coordination of our General Directorate of Public Health,” he added.</p>
<p>The move to isolate all people entering Turkey from the UK comes after the authorities decided to suspend all flights from Britain as of December 20.</p>
<p>Koca said that all 335 people who arrived in the country the night before the travel ban came into force had been tested for Covid-19. Even those who tested negative would be required to isolate and will be tested again after seven days.</p>
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<p></p> Coronavirus: French President…tag:poleshift.ning.com,2020-10-28:3863141:Comment:11173582020-10-28T23:54:24.153ZJuan F Martinezhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/JuanFMartinez
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Coronavirus: French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a second national lockdown until at least the end of November. …<br></br></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Coronavirus: French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a second national lockdown until at least the end of November. <br/></span></strong></span></p>
<div class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Mr Macron said that under the new measures, starting on Friday, people would only be allowed to leave home for essential work or medical reasons. Non-essential businesses, such as restaurants and bars, will close, but schools and factories will remain open.</p>
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<div class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Covid daily deaths in France are at the highest level since April. On Tuesday, 33,000 new cases were confirmed. Mr Macron said the country risked being "overwhelmed by a second wave that no doubt will be harder than the first". Meanwhile, Germany will impose an emergency lockdown that is less severe but includes the closure of restaurants, gyms and theatres, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.</p>
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