The death rate for people in group homes for people with special needs is more than double the rate in the state overall. RIGHT NOWAt a home for people with severe developmental disabilities on Long Island, 80 percent of residents have tested positive.
ImageA group home in Bayville, N.Y., for people with disabilities. By Wednesday, 37 of the home’s 46 residents had tested positive for the coronavirus. A group home in Bayville, N.Y., for people with disabilities. By Wednesday, 37 of the home’s 46 residents had tested positive for the coronavirus.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York Times The virus is preying on the disabled. At a group home on Long Island for severely developmentally disabled people, 80 percent of residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. At a similar facility in Queens, three residents have died. At another in Manhattan, ambulances have become frequent visitors. As devastating as the virus has been in the general population, it is preying with particular ruthlessness on New York’s sprawling network of group homes for people with special needs. As of Monday, 105 of the 140,000 developmentally disabled people monitored by the state had died — double the state’s overall death rate. More than 1,100 had tested positive for the virus. A recent study found that residents of group homes and similar facilities in the New York City area were over 5 times more likely than the general population to develop Covid-19 and nearly times more likely to die from it. People who work with the disabled described the challenges of enforcing social distancing among them. “One of the individuals here is positive, and his behavior is to get up, to pace, and he wants to give me a hug, shake my hand,” said one caregiver on Staten Island. “They have a hard time realizing that they need to be isolated.” At the facility on Long Island, 37 of the 46 residents have tested positive, two have died and nine are hospitalized. “Forgive me if I get emotional,” said the home’s director, Bob McGuire. “People discount people with disabilities and presume they understand them when they don’t know them. They think their lives are not worth the same as yours or mine, and that’s just not true.” VULNERABLE POPULATIONThe coronavirus is taking root in New York’s sprawling network of group homes for people with special needs. The virus came to New York from Europe, research shows. New research indicates that the coronavirus was in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that travelers brought it mainly from Europe. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-newyork&variant=show®ion=MID_MAIN_CONTENT&context=storyline_updates_newyork#link-39e31774 -- सादर/ Regards अविनाश शाही/ Avinash Shahi सहायक/ Assistant मानव संसाधन प्रबंध विभाग/ Human Resource Management Department भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक/ Reserve Bank of India लखनऊ क्षेत्रीय कार्यालय/Lucknow RO विस्तार/ Extension: 2232 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
