30 December 2020: "Official" Count of COVID Nursing Home Deaths Confirmed as Undercount - Local NY Paper

Nursing home death toll remains elusive, but it is certainly higher than official total

This is article from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle tries to work out the COVID-19 nursing home death toll in Monroe County and finds the state is underreporting the deaths, which they place at 50% of all COVID deaths in the county since March 2020. Using the state's "official" tally of nursing home resident deaths, the percentage of COVID-19 deaths statewide is 20%.

23 December 2020: Where Is The NY DOH's Data?

On 3 August 2020, New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker pledged to release the state's data on the number of nursing home residents who became infected with and who died of COVID-19 during 2020. Neither Zucker nor anyone else in Governor Cuomo's administration, including Governor Cuomo, has lifted a finger to make the state's public data on these deaths available to the public in the 142 days since.

16 December 2020: NY Republicans Ask President Trump to Force Release of Data Stonewalled by Cuomo

NY GOP asks Trump to force Cuomo to reveal number of COVID nursing home deaths

Governor Cuomo's and his administration's continued stonewalling on releasing New York's public data on the number of New York nursing home residents who became infected with and died of COVID-19 during 2020 is prompting this action.

10 December 2020: 89-Year Old Woman Imprisoned in Nursing Homes by Cuomo Directives

How Andrew Cuomo's Executive Order Trapped My 89-Year-Old Mother in COVID Limbo for Weeks

This article describes how Governor Cuomo's 10 May 2020 executive order, which reversed his administration's catastrophic 25 March 2020 order, is also having harmful outcomes.

5 December 2020: NY Nursing Homes Getting Set for Trump Operation Warp Speed Vaccinations

How NYC nursing homes are preparing for vaccine distribution

This article revisits statements made by Governor Cuomo prior to his administration's implementation of its 25 March 2020 directive forcing nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients without knowing whether they were still contagious:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo famously described COVID-19 in nursing homes as “like fire through dry grass.”

That's why there is such relief that nursing homes are at the top of the list for getting the Pfizer vaccine in mid-December.

“I can’t begin to tell you what a relief it is that there is a date on the calendar that this pandemic is going to be over,” Scott LaRue, the president of ArchCare, told PIX11 News.

And for the residents of Mary Manning Walsh and five other nursing homes run by the New York Catholic archdiocese, the date is Wednesday, Dec. 16. That’s when the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine is expected to be distributed to 1,700 Archcare residents and their 3,000 caregivers, pending final FDA approval.

And Scott LaRue is so pleased that the infrastructure is in place for a seamless, on-site distribution.

“Our pharmacy that serves our nursing homes was actually selected in addition to Walgreens and CVS as one of the distribution centers for the vaccine.,” LaRue told PIX11 News.

Nice to have some positive COVID-related nursing home news from New York for a change!

4 December 2020: Governor Cuomo Agrees to Allow Nursing Home Residents to Get COVID Vaccines

Cuomo: NY will opt into fed plan to vaccinate nursing home residents, staff

New York will participate in a Trump administration program aimed at vaccinating the elderly, sick Americans most at risk of death from coronavirus infections. The state is expected to have enough vaccine to treat some 170,000 people within the next two weeks.