{"id":2501,"date":"2020-08-31T04:18:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2020-08-31T04:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:18:06","slug":"doj-investigating-governors-orders-which-may-have-resulted-in-high-death-rate-of-elderly-nursing-home-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Investigating Governors Orders Which May Have Resulted In High Death Rate of Elderly Nursing Home Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 26, 2020 Press Release by The Department of Justice<\/a> states:<\/p>\n

Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.\u00a0New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.<\/p>\n

For example, on March 25, 2020, New York ordered:\u00a0\u201cNo resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.\u00a0[Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting the rights of some of society\u2019s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country\u2019s most important obligations,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband. \u201cWe must ensure they are adequately cared for with dignity and respect and not unnecessarily put at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly.\u00a0New York\u2019s death rate by population is the second highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people.\u00a0New Jersey\u2019s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people \u2013 the highest in the nation.\u00a0In contrast, Texas\u2019s death rate by population is 380 deaths per million people; and Texas has just over 11,000 deaths, though its population is 50 percent larger than New York and has many more recorded cases of COVID-19 \u2013 577,537 cases in Texas versus 430,885 cases in New York.\u00a0Florida\u2019s COVID-19 death rate is 480 deaths per million; with total deaths of 10,325 and a population slightly larger than New York.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal \u201cCivil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act\u201d (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others.\u00a0The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents.<\/p>\n

On March 3, 2020, the Attorney General announced the Justice Department\u2019s National Nursing Home Initiative.\u00a0This is a comprehensive effort by the department, led by the Elder Justice Initiative and in strong partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that uses every available tool to pursue nursing homes that provide substandard care to their residents. \u00a0As announced on April 10, 2020, the department is also investigating the Soldiers\u2019 Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where COVID-19 has taken the lives of at least 76 residents.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-investigation-conditions-nursing-home-veterans-massachusetts-announced<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Letters were sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> of New York State, Governor Phil Murphy<\/a> of New Jersey, Governor Tom Wolf<\/a> of Pennsylvania, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> of Michigan from the Department of Justice requesting answers. DOJ states “Data will help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) regarding New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan\u2019s response to COVID-19 in public nursing homes”<\/p>\n

Mainstream media failed to ask the questions most Americans have been asking for months. Why would these governors place known COVID-19 infected individuals in nursing homes endangering the lives of the elderly? It is widely known the elderly are more likely to catch and die from COVID-19 than any other group. Was this an ‘oversight’?\u00a0 Was this neglect?\u00a0 Was this intentional? The American people deserve answers, and so do the many families that have been effected and lost loved ones by these actions. Maybe soon we will get those answers.<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 Press Release by The Department of Justice states: Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.\u00a0New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,60,66,53,71,61,63,67,65,62,64,69,68],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pete-santilli-post","tag-civil-rights","tag-covid","tag-cuomo","tag-doj","tag-elderly-abuse","tag-health","tag-michigan","tag-murphy","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-pennsylvania","tag-whitmer","tag-wolf"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1",496,105,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1",150,105,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=300%2C64&ssl=1",300,64,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1",496,105,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1",496,105,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1",150,105,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1",150,105,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1",496,105,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1",496,105,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"Pete Santilli - Opinion<\/a>","tag_info":"Pete Santilli - Opinion","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/US-DOJ-Official.jpg?fit=496%2C105&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-El","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}