11 August 2020: Cuomo Administration Stonewalling on COVID Deaths of Nursing Home Residents

New York’s true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy

This report describes the stonewalling the Cuomo administration is using to prevent the full extent of coronavirus-related nursing home deaths in New York during the period its deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect from becoming known to the public. The report indicates the state's official total, which Governor Cuomo has frequently used to try to favorably compare New York's performance to other states, really represents a significant undercount of the actual total of cases.

Separately, the Associated Press' analysts project New York's real nursing home COVID death total could be in the ballpark of 11,000, quite a lot higher than the 6,400 that Governor Cuomo's administration has officially reported. AP's higher estimate assumes the average percentage of coronavirus-related nursing home fatalities recorded in all other states is the 44% reported in an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.