Cuomo testifies before House committee that accused him of COVID-19 cover up
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cuomo testifies before House committee that accused him of COVID-19 cover up

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Andrew Cuomo began testifying publicly Tuesday before a congressional subcommittee critical of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as it began to spread through the state's nursing homes in 2020. Members of the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a report ahead of Cuomo's testimony that accused the Democrat of staging a “cover up” to hide mistakes that endangered nursing home residents. “The Cuomo Administration is responsible for recklessly exposing New York’s most vulnerable population to COVID-19,” U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the Ohio Republican who chairs the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, said in a statement Monday. Cuomo's spokesperson accused the committee of wasting taxpayer dollars on an investigation that found “no evidence of wrongdoing.” “This MAGA caucus report is all smoke and mirrors designed to continue to distract from Trump’s failed pandemic leadership,” said Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi.

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GOP-led House panel blasts Andrew Cuomo’s Covid response
3 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP-led House panel blasts Andrew Cuomo’s Covid response

Politico  

The former governor has insisted his text to Malatras, his first contact with him in three years, was a simple check in with a former staffer. But the GOP-led panel in a 557-page report released Monday determined Cuomo “acted in a manner consistent with an attempt” to influence Malatras’ testimony. “Considering the timing of this text message — within 48 …

GOP-led House panel to refer Andrew Cuomo to DOJ for possible prosecution: report
4 months, 4 weeks ago

GOP-led House panel to refer Andrew Cuomo to DOJ for possible prosecution: report

Raw Story  

A Republican-led House subcommittee reportedly plans to refer former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Justice Department to face possible criminal charges on allegations he lied to lawmakers about his role in reporting on COVID-19 nursing home deaths. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic plans to accuse Cuomo of engaging in a “conscious, calculated effort” to duck responsibility over …

GOP-led House panel to refer former NY Gov. Cuomo to DOJ for potential prosecution over report on Covid nursing home deaths
4 months, 4 weeks ago

GOP-led House panel to refer former NY Gov. Cuomo to DOJ for potential prosecution over report on Covid nursing home deaths

CNN  

CNN — The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. At issue is Cuomo’s truthfulness regarding his role in the writing and review of a state health department report from June 2020 that underestimated the …

Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing

Hindustan Times  

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced blistering criticism in an often combative congressional subcommittee hearing Tuesday over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during the time when the virus was spreading through nursing homes. Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing Republicans who questioned the Democrat zeroed in on a controversial directive his administration issued …

Marjorie Taylor Greene yells at Andrew Cuomo for 'murdering people' at COVID-19 hearing
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene yells at Andrew Cuomo for 'murdering people' at COVID-19 hearing

Raw Story  

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused former Gov. At a Thursday hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Greene reminded Cuomo that he had "attacked President Trump and his response" to the virus outbreak. "That was just a few days after you signed the directive to put COVID-19 patients into nursing homes on March 25th, which led to …

Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cuomo defends COVID-19 nursing home decisions in combative House committee hearing

Associated Press  

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced blistering criticism in an often combative congressional subcommittee hearing Tuesday over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during the time when the virus was spreading through nursing homes. U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York called the directive “deadly.” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the Ohio Republican who chairs the House Select Subcommittee on the …

Nursing home oversight would be tightened under a bill passed in Massachusetts
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Nursing home oversight would be tightened under a bill passed in Massachusetts

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ oversight of nursing homes would be strengthened, LGBTQ+ nursing home residents would be protected against discrimination, and better controls would be in place to protect against the spread of infectious disease outbreaks, under a new bill lawmakers passed this week. Approved on Thursday, the bill would require long-term care facilities to provide staff training on the rights …

Independent report criticizes Cuomo’s ‘top-down’ management of New York’s COVID-19 response
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Independent report criticizes Cuomo’s ‘top-down’ management of New York’s COVID-19 response

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — An investigation into New York’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic found former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “top down” approach of dictating public health policy through his office, rather than coordinating with state and local agencies, sewed confusion during the crisis. The report said the state’s existing emergency plans and policies, based on experiences with events like Hurricane Sandy, …

Andrew Cuomo to testify before COVID Committee on pandemic blunders
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Andrew Cuomo to testify before COVID Committee on pandemic blunders

Daily Mail  

Former New York Gov. 'Today, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will be held to account in front of Congress for the deadly pandemic-era nursing home policies issued under his watch,' the COVID committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said in a Tuesday statement. 'The victims’ families deserve accountability — not only for the disastrous ‘must-admit’ policies, but for the coverup …

White House lifting its COVID-19 testing rule for people around Biden, ending a pandemic vestige
1 year ago

White House lifting its COVID-19 testing rule for people around Biden, ending a pandemic vestige

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday lifted its COVID-19 testing requirement for those who plan to be in close contact with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses, bringing to an end the last coronavirus prevention protocol at the White House. The White House said the change aligns its policies with the Centers for Disease Control …

Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing
1 year, 3 months ago

Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing

Daily Mail  

Matt Hancock today boldly claimed that more Brits could have died if potentially Covid-infected hospital patients weren't discharged untested into care homes. Mr Hancock told the Covid inquiry that every decision on discharging care home patients during the pandemic was 'a choice between difficult options' The inquiry also heard that Mr Hancock was warned that there should be a 'focused …

Health officials ‘not concerned’ about Covid patients in care homes months into pandemic, inquiry hears
1 year, 4 months ago

Health officials ‘not concerned’ about Covid patients in care homes months into pandemic, inquiry hears

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Department of Health staff were “not concerned” about discharging elderly people …

Covid gurus Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance both criticised shielding in 2020
2 years ago

Covid gurus Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance both criticised shielding in 2020

Daily Mail  

Over 2million people were asked to shield during the pandemic even though the Government's top advisors had told the Prime Minister it was not 'very effective'. They also reveal Mr Hancock rejected Sir Chris' advice to test for Covid all residents going into English care homes, meaning some may have taken the virus in with them, fuelling deadly outbreaks. KEY …

Nursing home residents at risk as Covid infections rise 23%
2 years, 5 months ago

Nursing home residents at risk as Covid infections rise 23%

Dutch News  

The number of nursing home residents testing positive for coronavirus rose by 23% over the past week and hospital admissions are also rising, public health institute RIVM said in its Tuesday update. ‘Coronavirus can spread quickly in an open society without far reaching measures,’ the RIVM said. The number of coronavirus particles in waste water shot up 75% over the …

Nursing home residents at risk as Covid infections rise 23%
2 years, 5 months ago

Nursing home residents at risk as Covid infections rise 23%

Dutch News  

The number of nursing home residents testing positive for coronavirus rose by 23% over the past week and hospital admissions are also rising, public health institute RIVM said in its Tuesday update. ‘Coronavirus can spread quickly in an open society without far reaching measures,’ the RIVM said. The number of coronavirus particles in waste water shot up 75% over the …

Coronavirus Today: Who’s dying of COVID-19 now?
2 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Today: Who’s dying of COVID-19 now?

LA Times  

I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, Sept. 20. At a time when vaccines, boosters, medications and antibody treatments are plentiful, when hospitals have the bandwidth to care for patients who are seriously ill, and when, as White House COVID-⁠19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said, “most COVID-19 deaths are preventable,” you’ve got to wonder: Who is dying of COVID-19 now? …

Outside review planned for New York’s COVID-19 response
2 years, 8 months ago

Outside review planned for New York’s COVID-19 response

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A third-party auditor will review the New York state government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts by the administration of the previous governor to downplay the number of deaths of nursing home residents. Several state bodies have already probed the response to the pandemic in New York — including an ongoing investigation into nursing homes led …

Policies on discharging patients into care homes during Covid ruled unlawful
2 years, 11 months ago

Policies on discharging patients into care homes during Covid ruled unlawful

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It has only increased the distress to me and …

Families struggle to get COVID tests to visit loved ones in nursing and senior homes
3 years, 2 months ago

Families struggle to get COVID tests to visit loved ones in nursing and senior homes

LA Times  

Karen Klink sits next to a sign she used in a protest when it was hard to visit her mother in a memory care facility during a lockdown due to COVID-19 in late 2020. Late last month, as coronavirus cases were skyrocketing, the state declared that nursing homes and other care facilities must require a negative test for COVID-19 for …

2021 Notebook: The scandals that took down Andrew Cuomo
3 years, 3 months ago

2021 Notebook: The scandals that took down Andrew Cuomo

Associated Press  

THE BACKGROUND: New York Gov. In January, the state’s attorney general issued a report confirming that thousands more people had died of COVID-19 in New York’s nursing homes than Cuomo’s administration had previously acknowledged. THE WOMEN: In 2020, with the COVID pandemic, Cuomo became this huge, internationally known figure leading New York’s response, and he was holding daily press conferences …

Relatives of virus dead question Japan’s stay-at-home policy
3 years, 4 months ago

Relatives of virus dead question Japan’s stay-at-home policy

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Yoshihiko Takeuchi, who ran a small restaurant on the island of Okinawa, told only a few friends he had the coronavirus. He was among hundreds of people who have died while subject to “jitaku ryoyo,” or a policy of having some COVID-19 patients “recuperate at home.” In many countries, those with the virus stay home to isolate and …

COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise in New York
3 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise in New York

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is continuing to see an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in November as the holiday season approaches, according to the latest state data released Saturday. “There is one simple solution to ensure New Yorkers can enjoy a safe holiday season - get vaccinated if you haven’t already and get a booster shot if you …

Cuomo misrepresented COVID-19 nursing home toll, report says
3 years, 4 months ago

Cuomo misrepresented COVID-19 nursing home toll, report says

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Assembly’s investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s conduct in office concluded the Democrat’s administration misrepresented how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19, according to a lawmaker who reviewed the committee’s still-secret report. “They were trying to make it as what they thought was least damaging to the governor instead of just telling the …

New York health chief, defender of Cuomo policies, resigning
3 years, 6 months ago

New York health chief, defender of Cuomo policies, resigning

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, who was a leading defender of former Gov. Zucker, appointed by Cuomo as health commissioner in 2015, was a leading figure in the state’s pandemic response last year as the New York City metro area became one of the world’s worst COVID-19 hot spots. Zucker has also faced criticism from health …

The Push For Nursing Home Reform In The Middle Of A Pandemic : 1A
3 years, 6 months ago

The Push For Nursing Home Reform In The Middle Of A Pandemic : 1A

NPR  

The Push For Nursing Home Reform In The Middle Of A Pandemic Enlarge this image toggle caption Hugh Hastings/Getty Images Hugh Hastings/Getty Images According to AARP, at least 186,000 nursing home residents and staff have died from COVID-19. For many, the pandemic has exposed cracks in our long-term care system — such as staffing shortages and unenforced rules. Aging adults …

New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
3 years, 7 months ago

New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Delivering another blow to what’s left of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy, New York’s new governor acknowledged on her first day in office that the state has had nearly 12,000 more deaths from COVID-19 than Cuomo told the public. Cuomo’s spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, said the former administration had only been reporting “clearly labeled confirmed COVID deaths” to …

New N.Y. governor counts 12,000 more COVID deaths than Cuomo did
3 years, 7 months ago

New N.Y. governor counts 12,000 more COVID deaths than Cuomo did

LA Times  

Kathy Hochul speaks to reporters after a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at the state Capitol on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y. Delivering another blow to what’s left of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy, New York’s new governor acknowledged on her first day in office that the state has had nearly 12,000 more deaths from COVID-19 than Cuomo told the public. In its …

Cuomo exit isn’t stopping push for answers on nursing homes
3 years, 7 months ago

Cuomo exit isn’t stopping push for answers on nursing homes

Associated Press  

Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. “The nursing home people and their families have not had a day of reckoning,” said Vivian Zayas, who blames Cuomo for her mother’s death in a West Islip, New York, nursing home. “A victory is when the whole nursing home scandal is blown open.” New York’s Assembly had been moving toward impeachment of …

DOJ won’t investigate how Pennsylvania handled nursing homes
3 years, 8 months ago

DOJ won’t investigate how Pennsylvania handled nursing homes

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Justice Department told Gov. Tom Wolf’s office on Thursday that it has decided not to open an investigation into whether Pennsylvania violated federal law by ordering nursing homes to accept residents who had been treated for COVID-19 in a hospital. The letter comes 11 months after the department told the governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey …

New COVID-19 cases plummet at Louisiana’s nursing homes
3 years, 11 months ago

New COVID-19 cases plummet at Louisiana’s nursing homes

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s nursing homes, once the deadly epicenters of the state’s coronavirus outbreak, have seen new cases of COVID-19 plummet at their facilities this year as most of the facilities’ residents have gotten vaccinated. It’s the seventh week in which Louisiana’s approximately 275 nursing homes reported fewer than 30 new cases, according to state data. Inside the facilities, the change …

Impeachment probe to examine COVID tests for Cuomo relatives
4 years ago

Impeachment probe to examine COVID tests for Cuomo relatives

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — The impeachment investigation into New York Gov. The office of Attorney General Letitia James, Cuomo’s fellow Democrat, issued a statement earlier Thursday urging New York’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics to investigate the alleged preferential testing after reports were published in the Times Union of Albany, The New York Times and The Washington Post. “While we do …

Cuomo Reportedly Gave Family Special Access To COVID-19 Tests In Pandemic's Early Days
4 years ago

Cuomo Reportedly Gave Family Special Access To COVID-19 Tests In Pandemic's Early Days

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reportedly arranged for several family members and influential people close to his administration to be given hard-to-find COVID-19 tests during the first months of the pandemic last year, according to several media outlets. The Albany Times-Union first reported that Cuomo and the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, directed top officials at …

Reports: Cuomo Administration Gave Special Coronavirus Testing Access To Family, VIPs
4 years ago

Reports: Cuomo Administration Gave Special Coronavirus Testing Access To Family, VIPs

NPR  

Reports: Cuomo Administration Gave Special Coronavirus Testing Access To Family, VIPs Enlarge this image toggle caption Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival When New York was hit hard in the early days of the pandemic last March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration gave his family members preferential access to coronavirus testing, according to …

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered priority COVID-19 tests for relatives, associates, report says
4 years ago

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered priority COVID-19 tests for relatives, associates, report says

LA Times  

Andrew Cuomo is already facing other crises, including sexual harassment accusations and a scandal involving the handling of nursing home deaths. The relatives who received priority testing in March 2020 included the governor’s CNN anchor brother, Chris Cuomo, his 89-year-old mother, Matilda Cuomo, and at least one of his sisters, sources told the Albany Times-Union. One of the sources told …

Some NY nursing homes proved helpless in face of virus surge
4 years ago

Some NY nursing homes proved helpless in face of virus surge

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — As the coronavirus made an end-of-the-year surge across New York, few nursing homes escaped unscathed. Yet the virus still got into facilities like the Commons, where 90-year-old Constance Cuddy, a former nurse being treated for Alzheimer’s disease, died Jan. 17 from COVID-19 complications, according to her family. The Elcor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, about 60 miles south …

Michigan Republicans push for probe of nursing home orders
4 years ago

Michigan Republicans push for probe of nursing home orders

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — Allegations that New York intentionally manipulated data regarding COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes has led Republicans to demand an investigation in Michigan, where Gov. The Democratic governor has said the requirement never took effect, but she has defended allowing recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes while hospitals faced potentially being overrun last spring. In a letter to …

Cuomo’s nursing home scandal raises questions for one of his senior aides
4 years ago

Cuomo’s nursing home scandal raises questions for one of his senior aides

Salon  

Last July, when the New York State Department of Health issued a absolving the Cuomo administration of responsibility for the soaring number of COVID-19 deaths in the state's nursing homes, Jim Malatras was tasked with handling what quickly became a storm of criticism. Malatras said the report's authors had used a sophisticated statistical model to reach a persuasive conclusion: Infected …

Covid restrictions in nursing homes may be relaxed on Monday: Report
4 years ago

Covid restrictions in nursing homes may be relaxed on Monday: Report

NL Times  

The cabinet may announce as early as Monday that several corona measures in nursing homes will no longer apply or become more flexible. The Outbreak Management Team is examining the issue whether relaxation in nursing homes is already possible, now that most people there have received an injection against the coronavirus. “We certainly want to offer the relief of measures …

The Nursing Home Decision That Haunts Andrew Cuomo
4 years ago

The Nursing Home Decision That Haunts Andrew Cuomo

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING One year ago, Gov. As of March, more than 15,000 New Yorkers have died of COVID-19 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities ― making up roughly one-third of the state’s total deaths. The state’s health commissioner simply re-issued guidelines from the federal government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, telling nursing homes to admit any …

NY officials altered count of COVID nursing home deaths: Reports
4 years ago

NY officials altered count of COVID nursing home deaths: Reports

Al Jazeera  

Top aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo altered a state health department report to obscure the true number of people killed by COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported. The aides, including the secretary to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, allegedly pushed state health officials to edit the July report so …

N.Y. officials altered report to hide true count of nursing home COVID deaths, reports say
4 years ago

N.Y. officials altered report to hide true count of nursing home COVID deaths, reports say

LA Times  

Families of COVID-19 victims who died in nursing homes protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo altered a state Health Department report to hide the true number of people who died of COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported late Thursday. The aides, including the secretary to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, pushed …

Domestic travelers to New York no longer have to quarantine if they're fully vaccinated for COVID
4 years ago

Domestic travelers to New York no longer have to quarantine if they're fully vaccinated for COVID

Daily Mail  

Domestic travelers to New York will no longer be required to quarantine if they can provide proof that they've been fully vaccinated within the past 90 days. Domestic travelers to New York will no longer be required to quarantine if they can provide proof that they've been fully vaccinated within the past 90 days, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday Going …

AOC calls for probe of Cuomo's disastrous handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in nursing homes
4 years, 1 month ago

AOC calls for probe of Cuomo's disastrous handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in nursing homes

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. "I. stand with our local officials calling for a full investigation of the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during Covid-19," the prominent Democratic lawmaker, who represents New York's 14th Congressional District, said in a statement released Friday. In a video conference call with state Democratic legislators last week, DeRosa admitted that the …

Cuomo vows to “call out” criticism of nursing home response
4 years, 1 month ago

Cuomo vows to “call out” criticism of nursing home response

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his health commissioner offered a full-throated defense Friday of their March decision to require nursing homes to accept patients recovering from COVID-19, saying it was the best option at the time to help free up desperately needed beds at the state’s hospitals. Questions also go back months about whether the state made a …

Pressure mounts on Cuomo over COVID deaths at nursing homes
4 years, 1 month ago

Pressure mounts on Cuomo over COVID deaths at nursing homes

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, also told Democratic lawmakers that the administration delayed releasing data to the legislature about the deaths because officials “froze” over worries the information was “going to be used against us” by the Justice Department. Assembly Member Ron Kim said Cuomo had vowed to “destroy” him during a private phone …

Cuomo Responds To Allegations Of Nursing Home Death Cover-Up: 'Nothing To Investigate'
4 years, 1 month ago

Cuomo Responds To Allegations Of Nursing Home Death Cover-Up: 'Nothing To Investigate'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended himself Monday against accusations that his administration covered up the actual COVID-19 death toll among the state’s nursing home residents, blaming politics and miscommunication for the controversy. Cuomo tells @MKramerTV when asked about a potential attorney general investigation into allegations that his office covered up COVID nursing home death numbers https://t.co/Nj065D03oX …

Cuomo defends handling of nursing homes Covid tragedy
4 years, 1 month ago

Cuomo defends handling of nursing homes Covid tragedy

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “New York was ground zero for Covid, and nursing homes were and still are …

New York Governor Defends Temporarily Withholding Nursing Home Coronavirus Data
4 years, 1 month ago

New York Governor Defends Temporarily Withholding Nursing Home Coronavirus Data

NPR  

New York Governor Defends Temporarily Withholding Nursing Home Coronavirus Data Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP Facing allegations that the state under-reported the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, New York Gov. Sponsor Message Within hours of the report's release, the state came out with new data that showed an additional 3,800 deaths — nursing home …

New York should have released care home death data faster: Cuomo
4 years, 1 month ago

New York should have released care home death data faster: Cuomo

Al Jazeera  

New York governor is under fire for his administration’s handling of data on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. “We should have done a better job providing more public information” about nursing home deaths, said Cuomo, calling it a “mistake” that allowed “scepticism, cynicism, conspiracy theories” to take hold. “I take total responsibility for that.” State legislators have called for investigations, …

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