Americans are well aware of the nursing home scandal in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo allowed overflow COVID-19 patients to be sent to the worst possible place.
Where were the deaths coming from? The answer was clear when looking deeper into data at the website of the Pennsylvania Department of Health: nursing homes.
About 58% of the deaths in Delaware lived in nursing homes, and 46% of the fatalities in Maryland were at nursing homes.
Pennsylvania's nursing home deaths are far higher than comparable states.
In a piece titled, "It's Time for Rachel Levine to Resign," Henry said of the nursing home deaths, "That horrific death rate can be attributed in large measure to the Pennsylvania Department of Health's policies requiring COVID-19 positive patients to be housed in such facilities. Officials need to be held accountable and the first person responsible is Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine who should resign immediately - or be fired by Governor Tom Wolf." Henry called it a case of "Epic ineptitude."
For months, the Pennsylvania Department of Health website listed daily the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes county by county.
If you accept the state data released this week about the coronavirus' scourge of long-term-care facilities, no staff members at the Philadelphia Nursing Home in Fairmount have gotten the disease - and across the city's 47 nursing homes, fewer than 20 staffers have tested positive.
Where were the deaths coming from? The answer was clear when looking deeper into data at the website of the Pennsylvania Department of Health: nursing homes.
About 58% of the deaths in Delaware lived in nursing homes, and 46% of the fatalities in Maryland were at nursing homes.
Pennsylvania's nursing home deaths are far higher than comparable states.
In a piece titled, "It's Time for Rachel Levine to Resign," Henry said of the nursing home deaths, "That horrific death rate can be attributed in large measure to the Pennsylvania Department of Health's policies requiring COVID-19 positive patients to be housed in such facilities. Officials need to be held accountable and the first person responsible is Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine who should resign immediately - or be fired by Governor Tom Wolf." Henry called it a case of "Epic ineptitude."
For months, the Pennsylvania Department of Health website listed daily the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes county by county.
If you accept the state data released this week about the coronavirus' scourge of long-term-care facilities, no staff members at the Philadelphia Nursing Home in Fairmount have gotten the disease - and across the city's 47 nursing homes, fewer than 20 staffers have tested positive.
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