12 February 2022: Editorial - Team Hochul Shirking Responsibility to Probe Cuomo's COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Team Hochul refuses to get to the bottom of Andrew Cuomo’s nursing-home horrors

The New York Post's editorial board finds replacement NY governor Kathy Hochul's administration's lack of commitment to understand what went wrong in New York's nursing homes as a result of Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive to be disturbing. Here's the introduction to the editorial:

With the evident support of Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett is refusing to get to the bottom of Team Cuomo’s nursing-home outrages. This is far from the “transparency” Hochul promised, and the Legislature should force her to deliver it.

The first issue is then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s infamous executive order of March 25, 2020, which sent thousands of seniors with COVID into nursing homes and helped the pandemic rage through them. The second is the ensuing coverup of the true COVID death toll in the homes.

Bassett says she wants to “look forward” and that she won’t “try and unravel what happened in the nursing homes under the previous commissioner.” Not figure out why a medically outrageous order went out, or why her department was actively complicit in hiding the deadly result?

Listen to those weasel words: “what happened in the nursing homes.” Bassett couldn’t even bring herself to say it. “What happened” was that some 15,000 older people died while Cuomo was playing hero on TV and getting his flunkies to fudge the numbers that showed otherwise.

Here's the final paragraph:

If the state’s leaders manage to keep this swept under the rug, they’ll be accessories after the fact.

We would observe that many of these elected and appointed officials have been accessories all along.