Posted on 02/19/2023 10:49:18 PM PST by lowbridge
A US Navy admiral begged the Cuomo administration to send patients to the nearly-empty hospital ship docked on the Hudson River during the height of the pandemic — but his pleas were met with politics and paranoia, The Post has learned.
With city medical facilities packed with critically ill COVID patients in the spring of 2020 — and just days after the infamous edict by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to send COVID patients to nursing homes, which critics say resulted in thousands of deaths — the Trump administration sent the USNS Comfort, a 1,000-bed ship, to relieve hospitals of patients with non-COVID illnesses.
Another federal facility was set up in the Jacob Javits Center in midtown. Both famously sat mostly empty during their time of operation — with city, state and federal officials blaming each other for the issue at the time.
But in a trove of recently unearthed government emails obtained by activist Peter Arbeeny and provided to The Post, a frustrated Vice Admiral Mike Dumont urged the Cuomo administration to act.
“We could use some help from your office,” he wrote in an April 7, 2020 missive to Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa. “The Governor asked us to permit use of USNS COMFORT to treat patients without regard to their COVID status and we have done so. Right now we only have 37 patients aboard the ship. Further, we are treating only 83 patients at the Javits Events Center.
The Javits Center had space for 2,500 beds.
“We have been trying for days to get the Health Evacuation Coordination Center (HECC) to transfer more patients to us but with little success. We are told by NYC officials the HECC falls under the State’s Department of Health,” the email continued. “Our greatest concern is two-fold: helping take the strain
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Good to see you. How ya doin’?
How is Cuomo able to continue to walk this earth without shackles on?
He’s a dem. In NY. From a famous politic family.
Period.
He lost his governor seat
I said the creep they replace him with Will be worse. That’s beside the point
So now we have docs that support the egregious actions we all witnessed.
For that reason alone, I hope Cuomo remains shut out of any politics forevermore! He might fit right in with the “Rawhide” Covid policies in both Canada and Australia.
Nursing Home Genocide ping.
OK.
Still got a couple more stays in the hospital coming up. I expect to be admitted again in a week or so.
Just like the 40thousand ventilators Cuomo wanted, got, and never used
This is so typical of how government bureaucracies have no concern for the suffering masses. People die by the thousands while these morons wring their hands in indecision. These idiots have no sense of urgency to help the people.
This is so typical of how government bureaucracies have no concern for the suffering masses. People die by the thousands while these morons wring their hands in indecision. These idiots have no sense of urgency to help the people.
-PJ
Comments now at 789, just a couple of posts down, RMS writes: paragraphs spaces added by me for clarity)
followed stories about the Javits Center and the Hospital ship during the pandemic. I know the layout of NYC from working on many government communication contracts there and also lived in Jersey City for several years.
Cuomo and NY officials were desperate to block anything that might reflect positively on Trump.
After the first people patients were delivered to the Javits Center and the hospital ship, Gov Cuomo directed that local EMTs and ambulances could not be used to transport people to them. He said that the Federal Government established those places, so the Federal Government had to provide EMTs and ambulances to transport patients to them.
Volunteer EMT’s from out of state defied the order and were able to get some patients into the Javits Center on 11th Ave. But, after they got a few patients to the hospital ship, NYC officials blocked access to the pier. Of course, media types showed the pier from hundreds of yards away, noting there were no ambulances on it. They were careful not to show the police cars blocking the pier.
Once NYC officials realized out of state EMT’s had defied the order, they were not allowed to use ambulances. I got that from two local EMTs in CO who were there. They left after two weeks because of the disorganized mess in the city. As a thank you, officials presented them with a bill for NY State taxes on their CO wages for the days they worked in NYC.
He really belongs behind bars.
I also remember Franklin Graham’s Samaritans Purse organization set up a huge facility in Central Park, which also went largely unused, because of their Christian stance on same-sex marriage, etc.
The democrat party is the party of death and that is what its voters want.
Cuomo?
Follow the money. He is an Evil _Tard.
Deserves to be held accountable, but won’t be held accountable by man. There is one judgement he won’t escape.
So who will indict?
Nothing happens without an indictment.
The families of the dead might want to hunt these clowns down and in good Italian-fashion pull a Mussilini.
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