Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said on Monday that his state did “just the opposite” of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, while the death scandal in nursing homes threatens dominate the Democratic government.
DeSantis, who has been widely praised for protecting Florida’s elderly population, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday that his government considered taking care of asylum-seekers in terms of transmitting the virus.
DeSantis: “We in Florida had exactly the opposite order. We said that you cannot send a positive COVID nursing home resident back to the nursing home because this is the most vulnerable population and you would obviously put them at risk, but what we also did after the first few weeks, we set up nursing units just COVID, so that if someone tested positive in a nursing home, it could be safely transferred and isolated so that other residents would be protected .
“We really saw it as the tip of the spear when you’re dealing with COVID because … it tends to kill very old and very sick people.”
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“Around mid-March, we everyone received models saying, ‘Yyou will not have any hospital beds in five days. ‘Every governor has these models. I questioned the assumptions in these models, I didn’t think they were valid and said ‘I won’t build our policy around that’, but even if I was wrong, I would build more beds somewhere instead of throwing these elderly people back into a fire. nursing home, where they can infect and infect many other people.
“So it was just an important judgment that we were all called to make and I think Florida got it right and, obviously, other states followed a different path.”