UPDATE: EMPIRE LAWSUIT, NURSING HOME DATA, CUOMO SCANDAL 2/7/2021, JUDGE RULES CUOMO IN CLEAR VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF INFO LAW, HAS FIVE DAYS TO RELEASE DATA

Attorney General Tish James’ report began to reveal the horrific truth: Gov. Cuomo’s Department of Health hid the true toll of the coronavirus on nursing-home residents. But much more remains to get at the full truth, including the impact of Cuomo’s insane March 25 mandate that forced homes to take in COVID-positive patients.

Cuomo & Co. stonewalled for months, ignoring demands from lawmakers and watchdogs to release the total number of nursing-home resident deaths, including those that happened in hospitals. Only in the wake of James’ report did Health Commissioner Howard Zucker admit that the true toll was about 50 percent higher than he’d claimed.

A judge last week ruled that the long stonewall was a clear violation of the Freedom of Information Law. Albany Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O’Connor slammed Team Cuomo for claiming it “was unable to respond” to the Empire Center’s FOIL request for six months. She gave the DOH five business days to release the data. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/07/lawsuit-cant-get-cuomo-to-come-clean-on-nursing-home-deaths/

2/11 UPDATE  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-those-of-us-following-escalating.html