Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo allow anything resembling an outside review of New York’s coronavirus nursing-home horrors? The test case is a bipartisan bill from state Sen. Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Ron Kim.
At the height of the pandemic, the state’s March 25 mandate put infected patients among the elderly — who Cuomo has acknowledged are the most vulnerable to the virus. The gov insists any criticism of that order is pure politics.
The bill calls for an independent investigation to, as sponsors put it, “fully examine policies that led to the deaths of thousands of New Yorkers in nursing-home facilities” during the pandemic.
Team Cuomo has stonewalled all efforts to get answers, and lawmakers are furious.
“Some issues transcend partisan politics,” said Tedisco (R-Glenville), and the needless deaths of thousands is one of them.
“Don’t be publishing a damn book right now. Take responsibility for what is happening,” an exasperated Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) fumed at this week’s Empire Report forum on the issue.
One key point: Cuomo officials won’t provide data on nursing-home residents who died in hospitals. “If you die in the nursing home, it’s a nursing-home death. If you die in the hospital, it’s called a hospital death,” Cuomo told WAMC Radio in defending the decision to stop giving a public count of the latter — though New York is the only significant state to keep that info secret. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2020/08/21/cuomo-admits-guilt-if-he-wont-allow-ny-nursing-home-covid-19-probe/
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NURSING HOME SCANDAL UPDATE JANUARY 2021 https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/cuomo-refuses-to-fully-disclose-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-watchdog/
UPDATED THE BAD NEWS IS OUT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/01/after-blaming-trump-and-incompetent.html
UPDATED 2021, 12,000 NURSING HOME DEATHS
UPDATED: MORE THAN 12K NURSING HOME DEATHS https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/ny-nursing-home-covid-deaths-more-than-12k-cuomo-health-chief/
FEBRUARY 2021 UPDATE https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-those-following-escalating-nursing.html
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