6 July 2020: Cuomo Administration's State Health Department Exonerates Itself

New York DOH report says state blameless for nursing home deaths

This report presents a classic example of what can happen when you let foxes guard chicken coops and then perform investigations into whether the foxes had any responsibility for any of the deaths that inevitably resulted. Independent investigations are needed. The report also blames nursing home staff members and family members visiting residents for spreading coronavirus infections in the state's nursing homes, claiming they were infected and spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus in early March.

If you review the entry for 12 March 2020, you can find when Governor Cuomo issued a statewide order to block family members from visiting their relatives living in New York's nursing homes, which is still in effect. If you review the entry for 29 April 2020, you will find the story where New York's Department of Health knowingly allowed coronavirus-infected nursing home staff members to return to work.

If you review the entry for 16 June 2020, you can find the story of a nursing home that defied the Cuomo administration's deadly order forcing nursing homes to admit patients known to be infected with the coronavirus, which then recorded no deaths attributed to COVID-19 during the period where the policy was in effect, unlike all the other nursing homes that did.

Finally, if you review the entry for 23 June 2020, you'll find Governor Cuomo was making the claim that nursing home staffs were behind the COVID deaths of nursing home residents. That's an early indication he had insider knowledge of what the report's findings would be, which means he and his administration had influence over its findings.