Subscribe to KHN's free Morning Briefing. Further, nursing homes were prohibited from requiring that medically stable prospective residents be tested for the virus before they arrived.īetween March 25 and May 8, approximately 6,326 COVID-positive patients were admitted to nursing homes, according to a state health department report. As long as they were medically stable, the notice said, it was appropriate to move patients in. It was an easy jab: Cuomo has been dogged by criticism for months over his March advisory directing nursing homes in the state to accept patients who had or were suspected of having COVID-19.

“Does the #DemConvention know forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?” he wrote. Andrew Cuomo was among the first in a weeklong parade of speakers to issue scathing critiques of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response.Ĭuomo’s criticisms drew a quick reply in a tweet from Michael Caputo, an assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, New York Gov. This story can be republished for free ( details). We consulted experts on the best bins and how to get started.This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. Here's an eco-friendly way to put all your extra food waste from eating at home more to use: Get composting. Some people are 'quaranteaming' to ride out the outbreak - but is it safe? But they also divide us, Christopher Mosley writes in an opinion piece. Masks have the potential to protect Americans. Feeling cooped up? Ex-astronaut José Hernández has NASA-approved tips for stay sane.For many black women, home styling during coronavirus is a hair-raising challenge.A bipartisan Senate report says the 2017 intelligence assessment about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including efforts to help Trump, was accurate.Will oil's price slump be worse for the economy than the effects of the coronavirus?.Want to receive the Morning Rundown in your inbox? Sign up here. Experts fear that isolated indigenous tribes risk extinction from coronavirus. 'There are no adequate hospitals and resources available to treat the people or even provide emergency canoes or helicopters.' The home of the remote Dois Irmaos community in Acre state, Brazil. 'The threat of COVID-19 in the Amazon to indigenous peoples and the peoples in isolation is a very real threat of possible ethnocide,' says Leila Salazar-López, the executive director of the advocacy group Amazon Watch.

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death toll from COVID-19 has risen to more than 44,000, according to NBC News' tally.

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World Food Program warned that the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic turmoil could cause ' famines of biblical proportions.'

Attorney General Barr called stay-at-home orders ' disturbingly close to house arrest' and said the Department of Justice may consider taking legal action against states that go too far.

Trump's new immigration ban raises loads of questions, primarily: Is this a far-reaching policy change or simply formalizing the temporary suspension of immigration that has been happening during the pandemic anyway? Here's what we know so far.President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would 'pause' issuing green cards - a mandatory steppingstone to citizenship - for 60 days.House members were advised to return to Washington for a vote Thursday morning, meaning the bill could be on the president's desk by week's end. The Senate passed a $484 billion relief bill to support small businesses, hospitals and testing.The new fatalities may shift the timeline of the virus's outbreak across the country to weeks earlier than previously believed.

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