Governors Under Fire

“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration confirmed [last] Thursday that thousands more nursing home residents died of COVID-19 than the state’s official tallies had previously acknowledged… The surprise development, after months of the state refusing to divulge its true numbers, showed that at least 12,743 long-term care residents died of the virus as of Jan. 19, far greater than the official tally of 8,505 on that day… Those numbers are consistent with a report released just hours earlier by state Attorney General Letitia James charging that the nursing home death...