{"id":49965,"date":"2021-03-14T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/?p=49965"},"modified":"2021-03-14T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:33:28","slug":"nj-gov-murphy-his-decision-to-place-covid-infected-patients-back-into-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/nj-gov-murphy-his-decision-to-place-covid-infected-patients-back-into-nursing-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Gov Murphy; His Decision to Place Covid Infected Patients Back into Nursing Homes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New Jersey leads the nation in COVID-19 deaths per capita. It leads the world. If New Jersey were a country, its death rate of 249 deaths per 100,000 residents would rank it ahead of every nation on Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Mulshine, a Star-Ledger columnist<\/a> shared those ugly facts in a recent story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late March 2020, the CDC made it clear: the virus could spread rapidly through nursing homes. Four days, later the state commanded that the homes take infected patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy administration followed lead of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Both banning nursing homes from refusing admission to COVID-positive patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time, the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published an article on the outbreak a month earlier at a nursing home in Washington State. Early data reports indicated \u201cvery rapid spread, despite early adoption of infection prevention and control measures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple days later the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Medicine issued a warning against accepting COVID patients in nursing homes, saying that doing so would \u201cput the many frail and older adults who reside in nursing homes at risk.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Jersey order prohibited nursing homes from testing patients for COVID-19. That made it impossible for homes to quarantine COVID-positive patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You weren\u2019t allowed to refuse them because of their COVID status and you weren\u2019t allowed to test them to determine the status<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Other states, like Georgia, took the opposite approach and issued orders prohibiting the homes from accepting COVID-positive patients. Georgia has a death rate less than half New Jersey\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney make this a priority? Not unless forced. Especially in an election year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 states told nursing homes to accept Covid infected patients.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n