Three people died in a quarantined hotel in New York City after being released from a hospital following a CCP virus treatment.
The three men were staying at the Hilton Garden Inn, which is being used to quarantine people who have been diagnosed and are recovering from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus. The men were living in three separate rooms, according to New York Post.
Fox News reported that under a contract with government agency NYC Emergency Management, the Hilton Garden Inn houses patients who have been released after being tested positive for the CCP virus, which emerged from mainland China last year and causes the disease COVID-19.
Robert Rowe, 70, and Julio Melendez, 42, were found dead in their hotel rooms on April 18. The Post reported that Rowe was found dead by hotel staff, while Melendez was discovered after his caseworker wasn’t able to reach him through phone calls and didn’t take his food. The next day, a 64-year-old man was found on the floor of his hotel room by building security. That man was not named in the report and his family had not been notified of his death as of Monday afternoon.
It is not clear when the men were discharged from the hospitals.
An investigation is being conducted into their deaths, said Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a conference on Monday.
“We are doing the review right now to understand what happened,” Blasio said. “We don’t know if there’s a connection between those deaths. If they’re all discharged from three different hospitals, something doesn’t make sense here.”
“We don’t know yet what happened here and why it happened,” he added.
De Blasio said the men were discharged separately from three different hospitals: Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Harlem Hospital Center in Manhattan, and Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. He did not say who was at which hospital.
New York City will be sending additional medical staff to the quarantine hotels to make sure that CCP virus patients who are discharged from hospitals are recovering well. There are 11,000 isolation hotel rooms in New York City, which are reserved for COVID-19 positive patients who cannot isolate in their own homes because of crowded apartment conditions.
“The health and safety of anyone staying in isolation hotels is of the utmost importance and the City is taking every precaution to ensure their needs are met while they quarantine. New Yorkers staying in these hotels have been determined by hospitals who are discharging them to not need medical care or hospitalization,” said New York City officials, Fox 5 New York reported.
