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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 4469164" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/</a>New York health officials were warned in writing that <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/22/inside-coronavirus-hellish-tear-through-new-yorks-nursing-homes/" target="_blank">a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died</a> of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show.Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.“We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emailsTuchman got a response 20 minutes later, but all it offered was an attachment with advice on how to conserve PPE, the email chain shows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 4469164, member: 12952"] [URL]https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/[/URL] New York health officials were warned in writing that [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/04/22/inside-coronavirus-hellish-tear-through-new-yorks-nursing-homes/']a Brooklyn nursing home where 55 patients have died[/URL] of coronavirus was overwhelmed — weeks before it began topping the state’s official list of resident COVID-19 deaths, damning emails show. Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side. “We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails Tuchman got a response 20 minutes later, but all it offered was an attachment with advice on how to conserve PPE, the email chain shows. [SIZE=6][B][/B] [B] [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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