“Patients will die,” an unidentified nursing administrator warned the Murphy Administration on a conference call last March after being informed of an order forcing long-term care facilities to accept sick patients from hospitals.

“You understand that by asking us to take COVID patients, by demanding we take COVID patients, that patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn’t have otherwise died had we screened them out.”

Another administrator on the call warned that infection would spread even if they tried to keep COVID patients separate, as the Health Commissioner suggested was possible.

“The problem, of course, is there is no separating safely,” the nursing home administrator told Persichilli. “It’s almost certain that...something will migrate.”

The Murphy administration refused to listen the warnings and 8,000 nursing home residents died.