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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Health Department understated the number of New Yorkers who died in nursing homes during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic by more than 50 percent as the facilities struggled to properly isolate and treat residents amid a state order they not turn away COVID-19 patients.
The bombshell finding was contained in a new 76-page report released Thursday by state Attorney General Letitia James, which found that mismanagement and long-standing problems in the private care business turned nursing homes into COVID death traps.
“As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand
why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an
alarming rate,” said Attorney General James in a statement.
“While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents,” she continued. “Nursing homes residents and workers deserve to live and work in safe environments, and I will continue to work hard to safeguard this basic right during this precarious time.”
Lawmakers and nursing home advocates alike have been critical of the Cuomo administration’s virus-related policies governing nursing home protocols, specifically a now infamous March 25 order that barred homes from turning away COVID-positive individuals.
As part of the report, James’ investigators surveyed 62 nursing homes across the state and found that 1,914 residents from those facilities either died there or at nearby hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus or exhibiting symptoms of the deadly disease.
That figure was 56 percent higher than the numbers for those facilities published by the state Department of Health, which only published the number of people who passed away while still at the nursing homes at the time of their deaths, not those who were subsequently taken to a hospital and then died.
If that undercount is consistent across the entire state — it would push the number of nursing home deaths from the current tally of 8,711 presumed and confirmed coronavirus cases to more than 13,000.
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Imagine if Cuomo was a republican? CNN Might actually report this
Fact checking Gov. Cuomo's false claim about Covid-positive patients and nursing homes
Cuomo's assertion that "it never happened" is false. According to a report from the New York State Department of Health,
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June 1
CNN
A quarter of US nursing homes report at least one coronavirus infection, first official tally shows
video: Grieving families say Gov. Cuomo order on nursing homes may have resulted in deaths of their loved ones
DOJ requests Covid-19 nursing home data from four Democratic-led states and says agency may investigate
The department noted in the release that the four states -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan -- all "required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing."
video: Grieving families say Gov. Cuomo order on nursing homes may have resulted in deaths of their loved ones
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NY Times Jan 27
N.Y. Severely Undercounted Virus Deaths in Nursing Homes, Report Says
Fact checking Gov. Cuomo's false claim about Covid-positive patients and nursing homes
Cuomo's assertion that "it never happened" is false. According to a report from the New York State Department of Health,
____________________________________
June 1
CNN
A quarter of US nursing homes report at least one coronavirus infection, first official tally shows
video: Grieving families say Gov. Cuomo order on nursing homes may have resulted in deaths of their loved ones
DOJ requests Covid-19 nursing home data from four Democratic-led states and says agency may investigate
The department noted in the release that the four states -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan -- all "required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing."
video: Grieving families say Gov. Cuomo order on nursing homes may have resulted in deaths of their loved ones
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NY Times Jan 27
N.Y. Severely Undercounted Virus Deaths in Nursing Homes, Report Says
No I mean REPORTING! Not just that it's on their website.
Articles on their site is not "Reporting" as we know it today.
Reporting is having the talking heads on CNN Talk about it all day, hammering away at it and dedicating entire shows to talking about the issue. Making it their LEAD story at the top of every. hour.
Searching CNN.com to see if they every spoke about it is not the same. Not the same amount of eyes. Everything on their site is CYA Articles so people like you can say "LOOK THEY REPORTED IT!!!"
This isn’t on Cuomo.... the orders to re-admit COVID patients came from the CDC, whom at the time was under the evicted, non chiefs administration. He’s responsible for half a million bodies due to his lackluster response
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I wonder if anyone bothers to look up the nursing home numbers of New York vs some red state covid denier like DeSantis or that whack job in South Dakota. My guess is: No.
No I mean REPORTING! Not just that it's on their website.
Articles on their site is not "Reporting" as we know it today.
Reporting is having the talking heads on CNN Talk about it all day, hammering away at it and dedicating entire shows to talking about the issue. Making it their LEAD story at the top of every. hour.
No what you are talking about is politically biased "hammering away" and "talking about it all day"
not reporting
Last edited by jonbenson; 01-28-2021 at 11:03 AM..
This isn’t on Cuomo.... the orders to re-admit COVID patients came from the CDC, whom at the time was under the evicted, non chiefs administration. He’s responsible for half a million bodies due to his lackluster response
Oh ok then so then show me where all of the other states did this because it was a federal guideline? If You can prove it, I'll easily agree with you
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