<p>New York City mayor Bill de Blasio blamed profit-seeking nursing home owners for the horrific coronavirus outbreaks that have dogged New York care facilities, not a New York law that demanded nursing homes accommodate COVID-19 patients or risk the wrath of state officials.</p>
<p>De Blasio made the shocking suggestion in an interview on MSNBC Wednesday, in an attempt to explain why New York appears to have downplayed the situation in its long-term care facilities, potentially undercounting coronavirus-related nursing home deaths by nearly 1,700.</p>
<p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;A lot of these are for-profit organizations. I think there’s going to be a lot of questions about whether they put their residents first or whether they put profit first,&#8221; de Blasio said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> De Blasio on nursing homes: &quot;A lot of these are for-profit organizations. I think there’s going to be a lot of questions about whether they put their residents first or whether they put profit first&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KfPZNAXH0d">pic.twitter.com/KfPZNAXH0d</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1257993862334857216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The suggestion is nothing short of bizarre, particularly given that New York forced nursing homes to take ailing coronavirus patients, possibly while they were still contagious, likely sparking a number of deadly outbreaks among the state&#8217;s most vulnerable populations. Nursing home deaths make up 25% of New York coronavirus deaths overall, per current statistics, but, given how little information New York has made available, the percentage could be much higher.</p>
<p>At least one nursing home <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nursing-home-given-body-bags-when-they-accepted-coronavirus-patients-2020-4?amp">told Business Insider</a> that its previously coronavirus-free population was quickly infected after the facility was forced to take in two coronavirus patients. Reporting on the situation more than a month ago, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/nyregion/new-york-nursing-homes-coronavirus-deaths.html">The New York Times</a> noted that more than a dozen nursing homes in New York state were suffering outbreaks of 25 cases or more.</p>
<p>Most facilities tried to cordon off those with COVID-19, but some facilities &#8212; particularly those that serve underprivileged populations and populations of color &#8212; quickly found themselves overwhelmed. In some cases, New York sent boxes of personal protective equipment with the patients, including body bags.</p>
<p>De Blasio also ignores that other states, with far larger nursing home populations, did better than New York at preventing coronavirus outbreaks in contained communities.</p>
<p>&#8220;States that have taken better precautions have seen far fewer nursing-home deaths,&#8221; the New York Post reported Wednesday. &#8220;With a nursing-home population of about 70 percent of New York’s, Florida has seen about 10 percent as many nursing-home deaths — albeit with far fewer COVID-19 deaths overall.&#8221;</p>
<p>It turns out, some simple differences are responsible for Florida&#8217;s significantly better results, per the Post: &#8220;Florida opted for a less-stringent lockdown than New York — but Gov. Ron De­Santis focused attention on nursing homes from the start, and has strengthened those protections as the state begins to reopen. No Sunshine State patient can be discharged from a hospital into a nursing home without a negative test result.&#8221;</p>
<p>New York is far from the only state dealing with nursing home outbreaks. In Illinois, nearly 50% of all coronavirus-related deaths have taken place in long-term care facilities. Although Minnesota has a much lower death count, nearly 60% of all coronavirus-related deaths there took place in adult care facilities.</p>
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