Andrew Cuomo To Testify Before Congress On COVID Nursing Home Scandal

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will testify before Congress about his 2020 decision to make nursing homes and adult care facilities accept patients from hospitals who had tested positive for COVID-19.

Cuomo, who resigned from office after a sexual harassment scandal in 2021, issued an order in March 2020 that prevented nursing homes from rejecting individuals solely because they had been diagnosed with coronavirus. The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported in May 2020 that Cuomo’s administration knowingly undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by changing its classification system. Lawmakers sitting on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will get a chance to ask Cuomo about the subject on June 11.