New York Nursing Homes Took In Over 9,000 COVID Positive Patients Under Cuomo’s Order
Over 9,000 hospital patients recovering from COVID-19 were released into New York nursing homes during the early stages of the pandemic due to a directive from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, according to a report Thursday.
The Associated Press obtained records showing that 9,056 COVID-19 positive patients were sent to New York nursing homes after the Cuomo administration’s March 25 directive, a figure more than 40% higher than what the state department of health had previously disclosed.
The revelation comes after New York Attorney General Letitia James reported in late January that at least 4,000 nursing home residents died after the directive was issued, forcing nursing homes to accept residents who had previously been diagnosed with the virus while also barring the facilities from obtaining negative tests from patients before their admission.
“While additional data and analysis would be required to ascertain the effect of such admissions in individual facilities, these admissions may have contributed to increased risk of nursing home resident infection, and subsequent fatalities,” James said.
The Cuomo administration rescinded the policy in May following outcry from experts who said it was leading to higher levels of COVID-19 deaths among New York nursing home residents.
The Cuomo administration also revealed in late January that at least 12,743 nursing home residents had died from COVID-19, a figure nearly 50% larger than the official tally at the time.
At the onset of the pandemic, New York reported all nursing home COVID-19 deaths regardless of whether the resident died at their facility or at a hospital.
However, around early May the state ceased reporting all nursing home COVID-19 deaths, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. New York instead only reported nursing home residents who died from the virus while physically present at their facility, not at a hospital.
Cuomo then used the altered statistics to boast during press conferences that his state was handling COVID-19 in nursing homes better than other states with large outbreaks, which were reporting all nursing home COVID-19 deaths regardless of where the resident died.
New York withheld the true number of nursing home COVID-19 deaths out of fear from federal prosecutors, according to a report Thursday from the New York Post.
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If he thought those lives didn’t matter then his f@#$ing life does not matter at all–time to get this shit where it belongs—down the toilet and straight to the sewer in Washington where all the Diarrhea are waiting for him
No Mo Cuomo: Refused full use of the lifeline ship “Comfort”, at the time, docked in New York Harbor for political reasons. He instead threw some 9,000 Covid patients back into nursing homes causing thousands of senior deaths and altered statistics as above. NO JOKE!
The joke is the New York liberal-media elite gave him an Emmy award for his television performance! You can’t make this ish up!
Its time Cuomo goes NOW! before our state is beyond repair . He is guilty of gross negligence in so many ways but most importantly is the massive deaths this man has caused because of his ignorance!!!!!!! To say he doesn’t care how many of them died in nursing homes or hospitals as they are dead!!!! BLOOD ON HIS HANDS ALONE….