Cuomo: Some Hospital Visits are OK

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NEW YORK (AP) – Sixteen hospitals in New York state will allow visitors as part of a pilot program addressing the heartbreak of COVID-19 patients suffering while isolated from their families and friends.

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Cuomo said visits under the two-week pilot program will be time-limited. Visitors will need to wear protective equipment and will be subject to temperature and symptom checks.

Strict visitation rules were adopted to check the spread of the virus, but they have resulted in painful scenes of patients relying on phones or tablets for emotional conversations with loved ones.

“It is terrible to have someone in the hospital and then that person is isolated, not being able to see their family and friends,” Cuomo said.

Nine of the hospitals participating are in New York City, with the rest spread out around the state.

Cuomo made the announcement as COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. There are an average of 335 new hospitals admissions a day.

There were 105 new deaths recorded Monday.


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Boroch
Boroch
3 years ago

How about letting children in to see their elderly parents in nursing homes, and assisted living centers? In many of those places, residents of such facilities can’t even have contact with other residents, and cannot eat with them in a community dining room. They have to eat in their own rooms. It is mental cruelty to treat elderly people in that manner.

Kwomo
Kwomo
3 years ago

Cuomo keeps a kippah in his pocket, so when this virus blows over, the askanim, hoping and believing that we shmegegies will forget, will escort him to the usual leaders for political support.
Remember.

Yankel liebershnitzel
Yankel liebershnitzel
3 years ago

Hospitals here in NJ are empty