11 March 2021: Governor Cuomo's COVID Disabled Group Home Deaths Scandal Gets Whistleblower

EXCLUSIVE — Cuomo created disabled group home deathtraps, whistleblower says

This report provides a window into how Governor Cuomo's administration's COVID-patient "dumping" scheme worked at group homes for disabled New Yorkers.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home deathtraps have silent partners — a network of some 7,000 group homes where thousands of disabled COVID-19-positive residents languished with little foresight or intervention by the state, a whistleblower has told the Washington Examiner.

Some 552 developmentally disabled individuals died from COVID-19 in the past year living in small residential group homes, while an additional 6,382 residents and workers were infected, according to the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. No comprehensive protocol existed to combat the disease as infected individuals were purposely mixed with clean households, said care worker Jeff Monsour.

"In one case, an individual shared a room in a medically frail facility with another individual — one had COVID, and the other did not. The only thing separating them was a cloth privacy screen," Monsour said. "I have been complaining about this COVID situation for a year, along with some other things. I believe the dysfunction goes all the way to the top, to Cuomo."