We over prepared for what we didn’t know. Exactly as we should do. Err on the side of caution to support capacity.
Those facilities were not set up to take in patients who were discharged from hospitals, and the policy in NJ changed so nursing homes could not readmit patients unless they could quarantine them a week after the first field hospital was set up. So your basically arguing over a week?
So the question is, would outcomes be much different if we quarantined them at a separate facility or quarantined them at nursing facilities? I’ll concede it’s possible, but I don’t think it’s likely based on what I discussed here.
I just think blaming him for the number of deaths is disingenuous and ignores a lot of facts to get to that conclusion.
There are other areas where he does deserve blame and I don’t like how he has handled the reopening. I’m just not going to fault him for a virus spreading in nursing homes before we really knew it was here and before we were testing people.