After Anonymous Tip, 17 Bodies Found at Nursing Home Hit by Virus

[Suburban Warrior]

Source: New York Times

The call for body bags came late Saturday.

By Monday, the police in a small New Jersey town had gotten an anonymous tip about a body being stored in a shed outside one of the state’s largest nursing homes.

When the police arrived, the corpse had been removed from the shed, but they discovered 17 bodies piled inside the nursing home in a small morgue intended to hold no more than four people.

“They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,” said Eric C. Danielson, the police chief in Andover, a small township in Sussex County, the state’s northernmost count

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/nyregion/coronavirus-nj-andover-nursing-home-deaths.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Thanks, Donald

n/t

[SheltieLover]

2. OMG!

[Midnight Writer]

3. We will see a lot of this. The FOX theme that deaths are being OVERCOUNTED is bullshit.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trump/Fox think that low numbers are a good thing for them.

Trump/Fox think that low numbers are a good thing for them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. And Reaperublicons are claiming body counts are being inflated. Are they the Body Bag movement?

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. Jeebus. How awful.

[BarbD]

7. This country has never known what to do with the elderly.

Many nursing homes are just warehouses for people waiting to die. Their dream is to go peacefully in their sleep. It is tragic that the end of their lives is a nightmare.

[SheltieLover]

8. I'd be willing to bet

most assisted living / nursing homes could be owned by repukes & most likely repuke lawmakers. States & fed are hiding stats & names of facilities like crazy.

Some states won't even release the names of facilities infected!

Can you imagine what families must be going through to hear about a facility having infected residents but they won't name it, so the families aren't sure if it is where mom, dad, grandma, whomever is. 😳🤬

Def needs to be investigated.

[TomSlick]

9. Hadn't thought of that.

The local nursing home owner is the county GOP party chair.

[SheltieLover]

10. Boom!

There it is!

The one in WA is owned by some old repuke jerk from TN. Can't recall name.

[not_the_one]

14. And what do you want to bet many/most/all of the "residents" of the assisted living/nursing homes

are ALSO receiving social security payments to cover the home's costs, through automatic disbursements?

The longer SS doesn't know they are dead, the longer they continue to receive the payments.

[SheltieLover]

20. Hadn't thought of that piece

But you are right! Likely depends upon state, but I had a friend in IL whose aunt & uncle both needed to go into nursing home & they had to turn over about $400k in liquid assets & their home, as well as their SS. This was, I believe, a county nursing home. The private ones they looked into would have been something like $20K/month per person, some years ago.

I wonder if the private ones take all assets that way? Maybe not because they are ridiculously expensive.

But I hope someone is looking into this issue you have raised!

[Kaiserguy]

23. In PA they do

and if you transferred ownership of your home to a family member you had better do it long before you go into a home since they can take it if it hasn't been a long enough time period. That was we had run into with my mother. Thankfully she had transferred her home over several years before because of that. As far as I know that law hasn't been changed.

[LovingA2andMI]

11. OMG!!!

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

[ancianita]

13. Jesus how horrifying. I heard this on Rachel tonight.

[Ahpook]

15. This is some sick fucking shit

I'd be on a rampage if one of my loved ones were treated like this.

This is mental!

[ffr]

16. It's like America just threw them in the trash.

Not one rePutican will speak out about the American genocide.

[SunSeeker]

17. Nobody noticed 17 people missing? Not even their families? So sad.

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. With facilities on lockdown who would know?

This will happen more.

[SunSeeker]

21. A lockdown does not prevent family calls does it?

What put my mom in a nursing home was a massive stroke. She could no longer talk, but she could hear and understand me and nod or shake her head in response. So, because I couldn't talk to her over the phone, I went to see her every day.

I must admit, I never saw other visitors there for the other residents, most of whom could talk, and ofter spoke to me. It was heartbreaking. If my mom could have talked, I would have called her all the time.

Aren't there state laws requiring nursing homes to notify the next of kin when a patient dies? They called me in the early morning hours as soon as my mom passed away.

[LiberalFighter]

27. I would think so. From my genealogy research.

I see a lot of death records and I'm pretty sure that in every case it was a close relative listed as the informant. In a few cases, I believe the relative wasn't even living in the same state.

[Historic NY]

18. We've had a number of deaths at nursing homes

assisted living here in Orange Co. which abuts Sussex Co. Nj, started in a facility in my town and moved to the County facility. I'm just shocked that they left the bodies there. They could have contacted NY or even Pa. we all border together out there for assistance. They would have had the help the needed.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. America is breaking at the seams in an Orange Hair Delusion

Bodies are not counted. Dictatorship is patriotism. Lockdowns to protect public health are destroying MAGAt freedoms.

But have you also noticed? Inflation is not happening. Prosperity is more important than life.

And in the products we buy - a $200 2016 computer is far faster and cheaper than a $299 one now. And leather. Remember genuine leather? That's now called full grain cowhide. "Leather" could be that, or more often it's paper-thin shaved leather glued to polyester fabric and called, simply leather. No law prevents that. Thin leather dries and cracks after 3-5 years. So wear them now, while you can.

What I'm saying is we're under a grand delusion. Products are being devalued - the good stuff stripped from them - even as they raise prices. And they tell us everything is fine. It's probably too technical for most consumers to notice. But do your research, spend carefully, get good value for your dollars.

A society shoveling bodies from nursing homes in the dead of night into mass storage is devaluing life itself.

[Kaiserguy]

24. Devaluing life is the RW way

Look at the protest now going on to try and force Blue states to open. Human life has no real meaning to Republicans or to RW Christians. Its all about money and power.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Nearly 50% of PA's COVID-19 deaths have been in elder-care facilities

So I expect more and more smaller "private" facilities have dire circumstances going on that are not being reported and/or have not been discovered.

Coronavirus hits nearly 300 Pa. elder-care centers, accounting for half the state’s deaths

by Anthony R. Wood, Anna Orso and Pranshu Verma, Updated: April 15, 2020- 10:21 PM

The coronavirus has crept into nearly 300 elder-care facilities in Pennsylvania, where it has been responsible for half of all virus-related deaths in the state, officials said Wednesday, and it has struck the Philadelphia region with particular ferocity. The statistics were released on a day when Pennsylvania instituted an order requiring all businesses and in-person customers to wear protective masks, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy suggested that the mask look is likely to continue as a “new normal” takes hold after the pandemic subsides.

In New Jersey, which said the virus has been detected in 95% of its elder facilities, the total death toll climbed to 3,156 with Wednesday’s daily report, including 19 reported in Burlington County, and 71,030 positive cases were reported. Pennsylvania has logged 647 deaths and more than 26,000 total cases.

The rate of increase in new cases has flattened substantially in both states and nationwide. But the Pennsylvania data from the elder-care facilities, mined in what Health Secretary Rachel Levine called a “deep dive,” were disconcerting. In 297 of those centers, 3,316 coronavirus cases were verified. In Philadelphia, 34 coronavirus-related deaths were reported; 60 in Montgomery County, and 41 in Delaware County.

Nursing-Home Deaths in Pennsylvania

The state Department of Health reported that 324 people have died in nursing homes from the coronavirus. Montgomery County has had 60 deaths, according to state data, the most of any county. Nearly 300 nursing homes have at least one case, with more than 3,300 cases total.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-deaths-philadelphia-long-term-car-nursing-homes-stimulus-masks-20200415.html

[johnthewoodworker]

26. If only we had some type of national leader who could muster a unified response to the virus.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. How sad