13 October 2020: Cuomo Blames NY Post and GOP for NY Nursing Home Deaths Controversy

Cuomo blames GOP, NY Post for controversy over nursing home COVID-19 deaths

Governor Cuomo has written a book, which is hitting bookstores this month, in which he claims his political opposition and the newspaper that broke the story for the nursing home deaths that occurred while his 25 March 2020 directive forcing nursing homes to admit patients known to carry coronavirus infections without any testing to verify if they were still contagious was in effect are the ones responsible for the ensuing scandal. That would be the ongoing scandal for which his administration is stonewalling both bipartisan calls for independent investigations and for a full accounting of coronavirus-related deaths among the state's nursing home residents.

This report is also significant because it sets an upper estimate of 13,000 on the total number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents in New York, based on the number of unfilled beds those facilities have today. Governor Cuomo and his administration have only officially acknowledged approximately 6,700 deaths at this time.