Report finds Cuomo nursing home order linked to additional 1,000 deaths
Posted on AllSides February 19th, 2021
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s March 25 guidance directing nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive residents was linked to over 1,000 additional deaths, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy, a government watchdog group.
“Statewide, the findings imply that COVID-positive new admissions between late March and early May, which numbered 6,327, were associated with several hundred and possibly more than 1,000 additional resident deaths,” the report read.
The March 25 advisory has embroiled Cuomo in a scandal over reports that his administration purposely withheld the true death toll due to...
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