Deep Dive: Devastating Report Exposes Cuomo and De Blasio’s Disastrous Coronavirus Response
Guy BensonGuy Benson
TownHall.com
May 18, 2020
After enjoying many weeks of media hero worship — including numerous cutesy interviews with his brother, a CNN anchor who violated his quarantine while symptomatic and contagious with the virus, then lied about it — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is finally facing serious scrutiny for his policies and decisions throughout the outbreak that has devastated his state. We’ve been telling you about the failures involving New York City’s subway system, as well as the extremely reckless and lethal policies that forced or allowed COVID-positive residents and employees into nursing homes. As bad as New York’s death toll has been in these older care facilities, it looks like the state has been caught downplaying the statistics:
New York has omitted an unknown number of coronavirus deaths in recent reports regarding residents of nursing home and adult care facilities, the New York State Department of Health acknowledged in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. In early May, those reports quietly began omitting long-term care residents who died of coronavirus in hospitals. Even so, New York still leads the nation with 5,433 reported deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as of Wednesday…The revelation comes as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces criticism for ordering nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to accept patients from hospitals who had tested positive for coronavirus.
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