Four Louisiana nursing home residents died, 14 were hospitalized after 843 were evacuated from Ida

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Four nursing home residents in Louisiana died and 14 were hospitalized after being evacuated during Hurricane Ida to a warehouse where conditions were later determined to be unhealthy and unsafe, state officials have said.

A total of 843 residents from seven nursing facilities - all operated by one owner -
were moved to the Waterbury Companies warehouse in the town of Independence before Ida made landfall, Louisiana Department of Health spokesperson Aly Neel said.
Police said the warehouse had been set up to receive 300 to 350 people.

Neel said the health department received reports of
people lying on mattresses on the floor, not being fed or changed and not being socially distanced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which is currently ravaging the state.

Details of the four senior residents' deaths are unknown due to state health inspectors being turned away from examining conditions at the warehouse facility.
When a large team of state health inspectors showed up on Tuesday to investigate the warehouse,
the nursing homes' owner demanded that they leave immediately.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said he's 'grieved by the situation.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9953595/Four-Louisiana-nursing-home-residents-died-evacuated-warehouse-Hurricane-Ida.html

[yonder]

1. This is a much more cleaned-up and sanitized version

than the one posted last night.

Compare:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142795178

Pretty horrific in any case.