New York governor Andrew Cuomo said the issue of coronavirus deaths in state nursing homes had become a “political football,” in his first public comments after Attorney General Letitia James found that his administration had drastically undercounted nursing-home deaths.
The state health department in April 2020 altered the way it reported coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents. Residents who died of COVID-19 in the facilities themselves were listed as nursing home deaths, while residents who died after being transported to a hospital were not included in that tally.
The change in reporting artificially lowered the true death toll. Health Commissioner Howard Zucker admitted on Thursday night that 3,829 nursing home residents have died of COVID-19 in a hospital since the start of the pandemic, bringing the total nursing home death toll from 8,914 to 12,743, a jump of 43 percent.
Cuomo’s response, “we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes. But who cares — 33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home — they died.”
No need to, just go away will be fine. He is stuck on one thing and that be him. People that are not relevant always try to be by posing in front of a camera. Even if it is bad for them, they can’t see the difference. I have to cut it off and always have.
“we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes. But who cares — 33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home — they died.”
But… Would have as many have died if Grim Reaper Coumo did not put them into the nursing homes? I’m sure that many of them would have been happier to die in a local bar of their choice during an hour of their choice than a nursing home that was forced on them like the Nazi concentration camps for Jews.