(New York Post) – New York’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 may be more than 50 percent higher than officials claim — because Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration hasn’t revealed how many of those residents died in hospitals, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.
In a damning, 76-page report, James also said that some unidentified nursing homes apparently underreported resident fatalities to the state Department of Health and failed to enforce infection-control measures — with more than 20 currently under investigation.
The bombshell findings could push the current DOH tally of 8,711 deaths to more than 13,000, based on a survey of 62 nursing homes that found the state undercounted the fatalities there by an average of 56 percent.
The report further notes that at least 4,000 residents died after the state issued a controversial, March 25 Cuomo administration mandate for nursing homes to admit “medically stable” coronavirus patients — which James said “may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities.”
“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,” James said.
“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.”
Vivian Zayas — who founded the Voices for Seniors advocacy group after her mom, who lived in a Long Island nursing home, died of COVID-19 last year — said that “our jaws dropped” upon reading James’ report.
“The attorney general’s report shows that Cuomo’s book on his great leadership during the pandemic is a fraud,” she said.
“It’s a fraud and insult to the families. He’s a fraud and his book is a fraud.”
Young Andy, who indeed is a fraud who is surrounded by thugs, is a carbon copy of his pap, Mario Cuomo, a windbag and an even bigger fraud than son Young Andy or the other one that runs the Cuomo News Network (CNN).
So the Cuomo boys come by it naturally, as it is bred into them, not acquired after.
I might add as a NYer
Your Governor is a copy cat .
Probably a Como relative .
Hey Bib. I got news for you. Uncle Ralph is not a copy cat of any Cuomo. He isn’t smart enough. The lizard faced (and brains) gov. of The Commonwealth of Va. must have cheated on an awful lot of his exams all the way through school, and buried a lot of his problem patients. The N.Y. political mafioso machine is waaaaay too demanding of more brains than to have a putz like Northam out front at the mic. While it is true that Ralph is just as much a feckless narcissist as a Cuomo, he does not have the N.Y. delivery needed to make it on Broadway. Sheeeeit. Not even off off Broadway in The Borscht Belt. He is just as much a disgrace as the Cuomos though.
Charge the wanna be mafia guy with murder
Check out the front page of the New York Post today, which can be accessed on-line simply by googling “NY post, Cuomo Corrupt,” and you will see a mug shot of Young Andy with the word CORRUPT above his head, where it belongs, if not across his face.
And check out as well their Opinion editorial entitled “Cuomo lied and covered it up — we need a federal investigation to find the truth” by Post Editorial Board on February 12, 2021, where we had as follows:
New York needs the truth about the Cuomo administration coverup of nursing-home deaths — and that means an independent federal investigation.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide confessed privately this week that the administration suppressed the true COVID toll in the homes.
She also offered an apology — not to the thousands of New York families who needlessly lost loved ones thanks to her boss’s mismanagement but to Democratic lawmakers put in a difficult “political position with the Republicans” by the coverup.
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Yes. people, a cover-up, and who’d a thought it of our Andy Cuomo, besides everyone who knows him!
Getting back to the editorial:
Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, made the stunning statement on a video call with Democratic state lawmakers as she “explained” why the administration ignored since August their demands for nursing-home death data.
It began when then-President Donald Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us,” she said.
“And basically we froze.”
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” she said.
Suppressing evidence for fear of federal prosecution — what did the administration have to hide?
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What did the administration have to hide?
How about the fact that due to its incompetence and its depraved indifference to human life, a bunch of people died of COVID who might otherwise still be alive today?
But the story gets even better, as we see by returning to the editorial, as follows:
Later in the call, she said the Biden Justice Department isn’t as interested in Team Cuomo’s malfeasance.
“All signs point to they are not looking at this, they’ve dropped it,” she said.
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And of course, the Biden administration would turn its back on corruption in the administration of ma BIG DOG DEMOCRAT like Andy Cuomo, who holds power over Joe Biden as one of his electors.
So Andy is hoping Old Joe and his Medicine Show will put the BIG HUSH on here for Andy and make this all go away, which wish I’m sure Old Joe will comply with, for the good of the party, which comes above all else – because DEMOCRATS do not talk smack about other DEMOCRATS nor do they “screw-face” each other, which takes us back to the editorial for more as follows:
Cuomo has long and strong ties to Biden, who reportedly considered him for attorney general.
Cuomo was even at the White House Friday, managing to avoid reporters as he met with the president and other governors to discuss stimulus legislation.
What truth we now have only came despite Team Cuomo’s best efforts.
It took a damning report from Attorney General Tish James and a court order in a months-old Freedom of Information suit to get the Health Department to cough up anything.
And the lies keep getting exposed.
It turns out the number of recovering patients sent to nursing homes early in the pandemic — 9,056 — is 40 percent higher than what the DOH claimed in its whitewashing July report.
The state just released the new number in response to an Associated Press Freedom of Information request made back in May.
Upon hearing DeRosa’s admission, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Bay Ridge) called it a “betrayal of the public trust.”
Absolutely.
New York needs to get to the bottom of Cuomo & Co.’s pack of lies.
The public needs the full truth — and accountability.
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And my bet is that we will never get it!
My bet is that we’ll get the BIDEN DEMOCRAT BIG HUSH, instead!