Two years ago, the administration of Andrew M. Cuomo issued a deadly directive. It forced New York nursing homes to blindly admit COVID patients being dumped out of New York hospitals to free up their bed space, even though New York had access to thousands more beds for patients that went unused throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
In doing so, Andrew M. Cuomo used the force of New York's state government to introduce infections from the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus into the residences of the portion of the population most at risk of dying if they became infected. The consequences of hundreds, if not thousands, of additional deaths from COVID than would have occurred without the deadly directive was easily predictable. Cuomo knew the risk, and did it anyway, also abusing his power in office to cover-up the consequences of his and his administration's actions from the very beginning.
Though he was later forced to resign in disgrace as New York's governor, an action Cuomo chose to avoid being impeached over credible allegations of sexual harassment raised by multiple women, he has not yet been held accountable for the consequences of his COVID nursing home deaths scandal, nor his attempt to cover it up.
For a general overview of Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals, see the timeline entry for the Major Milestones in Governor Cuomo's Nursing Home Deaths Scandals. We're overdue in updating it to capture the events that have transpired since his resignation, but will do so over the next several weeks.
