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To: bentway who wrote (164426)	5/17/2020 3:49:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356962

4.5% of Americans live in nursing homes. The population of greater NY is 20.3 million or so. Thus, roughly a bit under a million New Yorkers live in nursing homes. If half of them die from covid, as claimed, that would be half a million deaths. Now, we're not done with this yet but no one seems to expect half a million deaths from covid in the entire US let alone just NY residents of nursing homes, as claimed in that video. The notion is preposterous. As for sending patients back to nursing homes from the hospital, I have not looked into this at all. But, off the top of my head, why would this not be the norm? If a resident of any community were to be released from the hospital, he would go home, just as would anyone who as ever been released from a hospital, or to rehab. That's SOP. Now, maybe someone should have thought this through in the planning process, recognized that SOP didn't apply in a pandemic, and changed the practice. But it's hardly surprising that people would naturally do what they've always done lacking direction to do something different. And I imagine that the legalities would be complicated.