Andrew Cuomo: “You have enough psychiatric beds. I propose to build an…”

“You just have to have the will to do it. So you would bring. You'd have a number of beds. Do you have a number of how many? There should be. You have enough psychiatric beds. I propose to build an additional 1500 community based beds. But it is a balance between institutionalizing people and getting them the community services. I want to talk about COVID and nursing home deaths.” (10:12–10:21)

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