Thursday, April 29, 2021

29 April 2021: What Harm Did the Cuomo Cover-up of COVID Nursing Home Deaths Cause?

The Andrew Cuomo nursing home scandal gets worse and worse

How did Governor Cuomo's and his administration's cover-up of the full extent of COVID-19 deaths among New York nursing home residents harm the public?

That's a central question in this opinion piece analyzing the impact of Team Cuomo's months-long effort to prevent that data from becoming known:

Denying state health officials access to data that could’ve allowed them to fight the pandemic more effectively, and thus prevent the Empire State from becoming superspreader No. 1, is bad enough. That Cuomo allegedly had staffers obscure the true nursing home death toll so he could sell a stupid self-aggrandizing book is genuinely psychotic.

If you think the New York Times’s straightforward report is bad, just wait until you consider its implications.

For starters, we must question now the number of excess deaths Cuomo’s interference may have caused. And not just excess deaths in New York, but in all the other states. We knew already New York was a superspreader state. But this new information suggests the overall effect it had on the rest of the country may actually be worse than originally thought, and all because its governor had a book to promote.

The article goes on to consider how the cover-up calls into question the Biden -Harris White House's management of the coronavirus pandemic, including how it discredits Biden-Harris senior adviser for the nation's COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt. Since those political considerations are out-of-scope for our main focus at this site, follow the article link if you want to find out more.

Meanwhile, here are related stories and analysis from the timeline that summarize much of Team Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths cover-up scandal:

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