WA Gov. Jay Inslee, like Cuomo put covid into nursing homes

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Here's the kicker: that directive was made roughly one month after the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington saw a massive coronavirus outbreak. The Life Care outbreak was dubbed America's "epicenter" for the Wuhan coronavirus, which officially began on Feb. 19, 2020.

The Life Care Center had two outbreaks, with a total of 156 confirmed COVID cases in its facility, with 101 being residents and the other 55 being staff members, KING-TV reported. The nursing home facility amassed "46 deaths between residents, staff, and visitors."

On March 24, 2020, a little more than a month after the Life Care outbreak, the Department of Health issued guidelines for how nursing home patients should be accepted into nursing homes.

"Long-term care facilities should admit residents with COVID-19 who are no longer acutely ill back to their long-care residence," the guidelines stated. "The decision to admit should be based on clinical care needs rather than the need for transmission-based precautions."

Since testing was scarce at the time, nursing homes were told to accept patients who were seven days after the onset of their symptoms "AND 72 hours since resolution of fever without antipyretics and symptoms proving."

On March 30, 2020, Inslee issued a proclamation deeming it "necessary to immediately waive and suspend portions of licensing statutes and rules relating to health care facilities" throughout the state. He also moved to "immediately waive and suspend portions of the licensing and administrative statutes relating to health care facilities to remove barriers to adding health care facilities and beds to meet the demands of the COVID-19 response."

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