State Ready To Pay Assisted Living Facilities To Take Coronavirus Patients

Since the hospitals are not overloaded; this can only be premeditated attempted mass murder of our most vulnerable.

The Newsom Administration has approved a plan to pay assisted living communities to take in COVID-19 patients — a move that doctors, nurses and other advocates for elderly people say is unnecessary and dangerous. 

The California Department of Social Services is offering to pay assisted living facilities with six or fewer residents $1,000 a day from the time the first coronavirus patient is placed, according to a May 1 notice issued by the agency. Rates for communities with more than six beds will be set on a case-by-case basis. 

State officials made plain in the notice that the offer was driven by California’s growing numbers of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. 

“There is an urgent need to provide housing and care for adult and senior care residents that, while positive for COVID-19, do not require hospitalization, while at the same time ensuring that hospital capacity can meet the anticipated demand for COVID-19 positive patients requiring acute care,” the notice says. 

Some medical practitioners said they were dumbfounded by the state’s willingness to send people infected with COVID-19 to assisted living communities. “It’s naive and it’s ignorant,” said physician Michael Wasserman, who is president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine.  

“If I’m a resident of a family member of a resident, I'd be calling my county and state and government officials and screaming at the top of my lungs, asking them why they are doing this and whether they want to be elected again.” 

Senior care facilities have borne the brunt of COVID-19 here and throughout the world. Elderly people, especially those with underlying health conditions, are far more likely to get seriously ill and die from the virus than other age groups. In San Diego County, congregate facilities make up 22 percent of the region’s COVID-19 cases and account for nearly half of the deaths.

RTWT.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Here We Go... Scottish Official Says Covid 19 "Quite Useful" In Culling Older People From National Health Service https://t.co/qlwEzpOES7 via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 19, 2020