29 April 2021: Anti-Science Team Cuomo's Cover-Up

Cuomo admin buried scientific paper on nursing home COVID deaths: report

This report focuses on the efforts of senior members of the Cuomo administration to block the release of data that communicated the full extent of COVID nursing home deaths during the period its deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect.

An email sent by top aide Melissa DeRosa to health officials on June 18 indicated the admin was “anxious” about a DOH report on nursing home coronavirus fatalities, the Times reported.

DeRosa apparently wanted the report to downplay the idea that the state’s controversial directive that required nursing homes to readmit infected COVID-19 patients was problematic.

The admin had faced criticism that the later-rescinded March 25 policy directive fueled outbreaks in hard-hit nursing homes.

They initially put the nursing home death toll at around 6,000 — though they were not counting residents who died in hospitals.

The draft report, which was obtained by the Times, put the number of residents with coronavirus killed through the end of May at 9,739 — far higher than what the admin was saying at the time.

It found that “approximately 35 percent” of all deaths in the state were among nursing home residents.

But the report was never published. Instead, a version that was reportedly rewritten by senior Cuomo aides several times was released in July, claiming that only 21 percent of all New York COVID-19 deaths were in nursing homes.

The conclusions from the state’s own health experts were buried even as Cuomo publicly urged people to “Look at the data. Follow the science. Listen to the experts” when it came to the pandemic.

Looking at the checklist for how to detect junk science, Governor Cuomo and senior members of his administration ticked the checklist items for Goals, Inconsistencies, and Falsifiability, using tactics similar to those who were caught red-handed in anti-science conduct.