29 April 2021: Cuomo Falsely Claims "It Was About the Accuracy"

Gov. Cuomo insists nursing home deaths were covered up for ‘accuracy’

Governor Cuomo needs a new script. Because the old one he's using is too out of date to keep up with even the New York Times' belated reporting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has his story about why he and his staffers hid New York’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — and he’s sticking to it.

One day after a report alleged that state officials repeatedly suppressed information about the fatalities, Cuomo claimed Thursday that “the concern for the state was that we provide accurate numbers.”

“It’s not than anyone was trying to secret a number,” he said during a news conference in Buffalo, repeating an oft-used excuse.

“Because it wasn’t about the number. It was about the accuracy of the number.”

Cuomo also again tried to blame the admitted cover-up — which is among the subjects of a state Assembly impeachment investigation — on former President Donald Trump.

It occurs to us that health professionals and scientists have a pretty effective method for dealing with the less-than-perfect accuracy of the data they routinely work with. They provide their best estimate and they indicate a range of values where, if all the data were examined by others from scratch multiple times, 95% of those examinations would see their best estimate fall within that range. That is a basic definition of what is meant whenever you see a 95% confidence level reported in a scientific paper or a political poll.

For Team Cuomo, that estimate was never going to be good for them, which is why they covered it up, starting in April 2020 long before the Trump DOJ came knocking on 26 August 2020, and ran with a COVID death tally that was never consistent with any independent observation.

The report also confirms Governor Cuomo is not acknowledging the confirmation his administration's cover-up began in April 2020. Probably because that would confirm he expected to face criminal prosecution by the U.S. DOJ from the very beginning, long before the Trump DOJ ever considered it.