Posted on 06/06/2023 9:49:36 PM PDT by texas booster
In March 2020, Dr. Howard Zucker had his name on the infamous ‘Cuomo Death Order’ that has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of nursing residents.
The New York State Health Department’s order stated that “no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission” to a nursing home “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” It even banned nursing homes from testing incoming patients to prevent cases from being detected.
In nursing homes that complied with the order, residents swiftly began dying. By the end of the pandemic, 15% of the state’s nursing home residents were dead.
Over 9,000 infected patients were sent into nursing homes and over 15,000 nursing home residents died. The outcome surprised no one. Christopher Laxton, the head of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, noted that Cuomo and Zucker, “unaccountably failed to include clinical expertise in operational leadership when these policies were formed and we don’t know why.”
Cuomo aides rewrote Health Department reports to make their boss look good. A Cuomo aide later admitted that the numbers had been kept hidden over fears of a Justice Department investigation into the state’s nursing home deaths.
Dr. Zucker was New York’s Fauci. He became the public face of Cuomo’s pandemic response and defended his actions and those of his boss. The Department of Health countered the outrage over its policies by releasing a report exonerating itself for the thousands of deaths that was shredded by epidemiologists, statisticians and health care professionals of all kinds.
...Zucker argued that the virus “was inadvertently brought into the nursing homes” and that it happened because “we did not know enough about the science”. The “science” behind respiratory viruses infecting people that they are in close contact with has been known long before Zucker was born.
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An audit by the State Comptroller’s office found that the Health Department had interfered with the audit and that top leaders had misled the public.
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With a record like that, where could Dr. Howard Zucker get a job?
Zucker had been joined at the hip to a disgraced governor ousted over his misconduct. He had been at the epicenter of what elected officials and even the media had called a cover-up and that had resulted in an FBI investigation.
But Zucker did not stay unemployed for long. He was hired on as Chief Medical Officer at Color Health, a company that had specialized in COVID tests, did some teaching at local universities and then became a Deputy Director at the CDC.
Zucker now wields “broad operating authority and responsibility for overall planning, direction, and management of global strategy and programs across CDC”.
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Pennsylvania’s Dr. Richard Levine also oversaw an order that forced nursing homes to accept COVID infected patients. Meanwhile, Levine took his own mother out of a nursing home. Over 2,500 nursing home patients died in the state.
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Robert Gordon, the head of Michigan’s Department of Health & Human Services, where infected patients were also forced into nursing homes, has become the Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Biden administration’s health bureaucracy is overseen by the state health directors who filled cemeteries with dead elders. And even those, like Zucker, who lost their jobs, have found better ones working for Joe Biden. No amount of scandals, shame or outrage has kept them from the pinnacle of the public health bureaucracy where they can do to the country what they did to a few states.
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Putting people sick with Covid-19(84) into nursing homes was one of the stupidest ideas I’d ever heard of.
We all knew THEN that the elderly and the weak were the most likely to succumb.
I always thought it was criminal, frankly.
I have asthma, and I pay attention to situations that can aggravate it.
It also made no sense to me knowing that the elderly have chronic respiratory issues.
Just getting enough fresh air in their lungs is a challenge, especially when mobility challenged.
But with the Feds pays $25,000+ for every intubation, it made sense.
And having a fully equipped medical ship in the harbor of NYC that wasn’t used once by city officials ...
Tells us all we need to know.
Samaritan’s Purse Set up a Field Hospital in Central Park, never used!
Zucker——
Another spawn of hell.
Cuomo handled COVID the best of any governor.
This tells me the genocide was planned.
He/they all should be sued for both criminal and professional misconduct re ignoring or suppressing information on virus transmission mechanisms as well as reckless endangerment of the patients and nursing home/staff people.
Time to do it is now.
Should be a major Trump re-election issue, 24/7.
What happened here is a curious thing. You had retirement homes which were functional like a regular hospital. The governor signs a paper, giving them status to take regular sick people...meaning the daily cost can go up.
Retirement home daily cost was in the $200 to $250 range (mostly), but hospital room cost was in the $1,200 to $1,500 range.
So if you had 30 rooms out of your 300-room facility open....you were suddenly taking in $45,000 a day on what were empty rooms, instead of $7,500.
I had some NY nurse explain the gimmick to me about six weeks into the ‘game’. She figured per month for one facility....the owners were clearing half-a-million extra on revenue. Unethical as hell, but no one seemed to worry about an investigation. Had to be a lot of money being shared out.
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I have never understood this nursing home thing.
I mean, you get a notice that there is a potentially deadly and very contagious virus, that kills primarily elderly, and instead of sending them to hospitals you say “let’s put them in nursing homes with other elderly people”
???
Whose idea was that?
Bkmrk
I knew people at the time who where employed by the nursing homes, they were threatened with thier jobs and then some if they made noise of any kind while Cuomo and his henchmen did their deed. This was deliberate, Cuomo is free and so this douchebag who was following cuomos orders. Where is the justice for these families who to this day all remain silent, unbelievable!
There sure are a LOT of them.
The people that are paying for the health care needs of Senior Citizens perhaps?
It is obvious that they spent all the money we paid in to Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security so the "fix" became obvious - KILL THEM, problem solved.
Funny thing is I started searching for other sources for this on Google and can find no trace of Zucker at CDC.
Do you notice how those incompetents on the left do something really wrong and then get promoted to a higher rank or position? It’s called the Peter Principle in a corporation and down right evil in government!
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