25 March 2020: A Deadly Directive Is Issued

New York Department of Health: Advisory: Hospital Discharges and Admissions to Nursing Homes

The Cuomo administration's panic prompted it to have the New York Department of Health issue what would become an infamous directive on 25 March 2020. The directive mandated that nursing homes must admit patients released from hospitals where they had been treated for coronavirus infections into their facilities, where refusals could mean the loss of their New York state-issued licenses to operate. Here's an image of the directive's text:

The New York Department of Health would later scrub this document from its web site.