18 February 2021: NY Republican Rep Holds Cuomo Accountable for All COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Reed says Cuomo is to blame for every nursing home death over past year

Despite Governor Cuomo's claims to the contrary, there has always been a bipartisan effort to force the Cuomo administration to come clean on the impact of its 25 March 2020 directive forcing nursing homes to blindly admit patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, despite knowing that introducing the infection into these settings would lead to the viral infection spreading like wildfire in dry grass.

That doesn't mean that hasn't been any partisanship aimed at the Cuomo administration from his political opposition, as this article demonstrates:

Republican Rep. Tom Reed says that all 15,000 Covid-19 nursing home deaths in the state over the past year can be blamed on controversial guidance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

On a briefing call with reporters on Wednesday, Reed said at least eight times that Cuomo was responsible for every one of the 15,000 deaths.

Based on the data we've seen, we consider Reed's claim to be highly exaggerated, which is par for the course in our current age of political hyperbole. Keeping in mind that the opposite extreme is Governor Cuomo's claim that none of the COVID-19 deaths among New York nursing home patients were the result of his administration's policies, the truth almost certainly falls somewhere in between.