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%.