Oh boy. We knew that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo oversaw COVID patients being put into nursing home, which lead to the deaths os thousands of senior citizens.
However, after a report from the New York attorney general’s office, it appears the numbers are even worse than we knew.
Townhall reports:
NY Nursing Home Report Reveals Data May Have Been Undercounted ‘By as Much as 50 Percent’
“It’s finally happening,” Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “@NYGovCuomo is going to have to answer for his role in the nursing home tragedy and the cover up. The angels won.”
After months of investigative work, New York Attorney General Letitia James and her office released their report on the number of COVID-related fatalities in state nursing homes. Over the summer, the New York State Department of Health reported that just over 6,600 people had died from COVID.
But as predicted, that number appears to have been severely undercounted, perhaps by as much as 50 percent, the attorney general regretted to announce. New York was the only state in the nation with a major outbreak to not include in their count those individuals who died from COVID after being transferred to the hospital.
Here’s the real kicker:
Among those findings were that a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent. The investigations also revealed that nursing homes’ lack of compliance with infection control protocols put residents at increased risk of harm, and facilities that had lower pre-pandemic staffing ratings had higher COVID-19 fatality rates.
So will Cuomo be held accountable? Probably not....but he should face the consequences for his actions.
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