The CEO is openly saying they can't protect their residents and asking relatives to take them.
Few can. We are desperately trying, but dad is disabled from a stroke and requires special care. Last night he was hospitalized with trouble breathing.
The CEO requested 28k gowns and face shields from the city and got 1k.
He says PPEs are going to hospitals first, which are desperate. But it leaves the most vulnerable in an uncontrolled outbreak.
This is the context in which Trump is calling states "insatiable" for supplies.
ArchCare is reaching out to private vendors themselves, but it’s a mess. They’re turning to unvetted outlets with little luck and want government to help sort out who can be trusted.
There are also few tests available, and even a 24-36 hour turnaround is too slow to keep up.
There’s been reporting on triage at hospitals, leaving sicker patients to help those with a better chance.
Without supplies, New York is effectively triaging its nursing homes right now.
Many, many, many seniors will die. Many are already dying right now across the country.
We don’t want special treatment. When Suzy and I first called about my dad, we were NOT reporting. We assured it was personal and off-record. We know providers are very wary of leaks and were shocked to find ArchCare begging us to tell the world what's going on. It's that bad.
Our story also shows why isolating only the vulnerable and letting others go back to business as usual is so deadly.
There's no way to isolate the vulnerable when an area is compromised; nursing home staff will immediately get sick. Over 1m could die.
🟡NEW: Team Trump readies attacks on RFK Jr. as internal polling finds him helping Biden, @ShelbyTalcott reports semafor.com/article/10/06/…
“It’s single digits, but it’s enough where it counts to make a difference,” said one person familiar with internal Trump polling showing RFK Jr. helping Biden. semafor.com/article/10/06/…
Trumpworld on RFK Jr: “We’re gonna be dropping napalm after napalm on his head reminding the public of his very liberal views"
Another allied strategist: “He used to be a fun plaything to hurt Biden, now he is something that could hurt the GOP" semafor.com/article/10/06/…
"When your opponent is so popular the voters don’t care if he gets indicted, your problem isn’t the indictment. It’s his popularity." joshbarro.com/p/its-time-for…
The obvious thesis of almost every R candidate is still the same and still unspoken. You don't have to sound like Liz Cheney to make the argument clear, obviously it will be based on other complaints (like DeSantis on COVID), but it's still 99% submerged semafor.com/article/04/19/…
All federal cases charged in DC: Illegitimate. A perfectly normal standard that wasn’t invented to rationalize a set of problems around one very specific person.
The Biden DOJ is launching its self-coup, we must prepare for our final battl—ah wait that looks kind of bad now that I see it
Here's the fuller clip. There's a lot of DOJ weaponization walkup, but the big news is straight-up saying the allegations (if true) mean Trump put troops in harm's way
The entire basis for Trump’s appeal is “vote for me, it enrages all the right people.” The idea you can beat him by arguing — or worse, hoping it sinks in subconsciously — that “he’s made too many people mad, so we need someone new” seems transparently ludicrous.
DeSantis is trying to make a substantive case against Trump, on COVID: The argument is he actually did screw up, DeSantis wouldn’t have. But asking people to be mad about something 3 years ago when you’re accepting the premise that voting for Trump defies a vast DOJ conspiracy…
Obviously he's had a lot of time to stew on this, but as a reporter who was there this whole time.....
1) He did hit Christie in that debate! Repeatedly! In fact that was what half the attack was over, Christie called it a "drive by shot" paired with a "memorized 25 second speech" and said it was part of a practiced DC strategy. You can watch yourself.
2) The "ended" contention is just semantics. The debate sent Rubio crashing in NH, which led to a 5th-place finish (don't take my word for it, this was Rubio's *own explanation* at the time!). The result: Jeb, Kasich stayed in, and a multicar pileup in SC. nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…