26 May 2020: Deadly Directive Scrubbed from NY Department of Health Website

Order Forcing Nursing Homes to Take Covid Patients Scrubbed from N.Y. State Website

This report reveals New York's Department of Health has removed its deadly order mandating nursing homes admit coronavirus-infected patients from its web site (it was linked here). Fortunately, others made a point of preserving multiple copies of the order at the Internet Archive.

Betsy McCaughey: Cuomo nursing home scandal – Deaths likely closer to 10,000 and it gets worse

The former lieutenant governor of New York and the current chair of Committee to Reduce Infectious Diseases, a public advocacy group who seeks to reduce the incidence of preventable infections at U.S. hospitals, who has been serving in that role for several years, estimates the death toll from New York's deadly coronavirus nursing home scandal could be around double the state's current figures if the number of patients who were transferred from nursing homes to hospitals before dying were correctly added to the state's official death toll from nursing homes.