15 May 2020: Cuomo Administration Confirms NY Is Miscounting Nursing Home Deaths

EXCLUSIVE: New York Admits Knowingly Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths After Quietly Changing Reporting Rules

There is no longer any question of whether New York has been deliberately understating the number of deaths related to the Cuomo administration's coronavirus nursing home scandal:

New York’s coronavirus tracker “currently does not include out of facility deaths,” NYSDOH spokeswoman Jill Montag told the DCNF. “Deaths of nursing home and adult care facility residents that occurred at hospitals is accounted for in the overall fatality data on our COVID-19 tracker.”

In other words, New York’s nursing home and adult care facility coronavirus deaths tracker omits any individuals who contracted coronavirus while living at a long-term care facility but died in a hospital.

The DCNF has confirmed our observation from 9 May 2020 (see above). Or if you don't want to scroll up that far, check out the chart with 12 May 2020's entry. Based on what other states in the northeast are reporting for the infection rate within their nursing homes and long term care facilities, we think New York's count for the number of confirmed coronavirus cases within its elderly care facilities are off by a factor of about 5.