6 August 2021: Editorial - Cuomo COVID Deaths Cover-Up Still Ongoing

Lest we forget: Creep Cuomo’s continuing his COVID coverup

The editors of the New York Post confirm Andrew M. Cuomo and his administration are still covering up the full extent of COVID deaths in New York. The evidence lies in the denial of a multitude of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for public data and documents.

The sexual-misconduct allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo seem likely to drive him from office, sooner or later. But his coverup of deaths at nursing homes, after he ordered them to accept COVID-infectious patients, is just as strong an argument, if not a stronger one, for him to leave.

Yet most amazing, his coverup of COVID info continues to this day.

Last month, his Department of Health failed to provide records by the deadline for a stunning 59 of 62 Freedom of Information Law requests from the Empire Center, claiming it needed more time. What is Cuomo hiding?

Indeed, this is the same trick Cuomo used last year when the center, and others, sought info on COVID deaths in nursing homes, following Cuomo’s disastrous nursing-home order.

Back then, Cuomo insisted just 8,500 residents of nursing homes and other facilities died of COVID and refused to provide relevant data. Not until a review by state Attorney General Letitia James in January showed Cuomo hid thousands of nursing-home deaths — and a court ordered the release of additional info — was the number revised to 15,000.

The Empire Center’s Bill Hammond says his group’s 62 requests sought “detailed statistics on testing, hospitalizations and deaths,” much of which “would come from the same databases the Cuomo administration uses for daily progress reports.”

This is very much a parallel scandal to the Cuomo administration's acknowledged cover-up of the full extent of COVID nursing home deaths during the period its deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect.