DeSantis: Florida took 'exact opposite' approach to New York in handling COVID-positive patients
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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that his state did "the exact opposite" of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic as the nursing home death scandal threatens to overwhelm the Democrat's administration.
DeSantis: "We in Florida had the exact opposite order. We said you can't send a COVID-positive nursing home resident back into the nursing home because that is the most vulnerable population and you obviously would put them at risk, but what we also did after the first few weeks, we established COVID-only nursing units, so if you had somebody test positive at a nursing home, they could be safely transferred and isolated so that the other residents were protected. "We really viewed that as the tip of the spear when you're dealing with COVID because ... it is tending to kill people who are very elderly and very ill."More Related News