31 May 2020: Cuomo Administration Cooks Nursing Home Death Numbers To Mislead Public

Cuomo Cooks Coronavirus Numbers to Defend Controversial Nursing Home Policy

While we've known for weeks that New York's public health officials have been deliberately misclassifying deaths attributed to COVID-19 infections that resulted from the viral exposure of patients in the state's nursing homes to instead attribute them to hospitals, this report describes the Cuomo administration's use of those misleading statistics to try to minimize the appearance of its role in producing the deadly toll that resulted from the administration's policy of forcing nursing homes to admit patients known to have coronavirus infections.