16 December 2023: Howard Zucker to Testify in U.S. House on Cuomo's COVID Nursing Home Deaths Scandals

Howard Zucker to testify on New York’s disastrous COVID response in front of House committee

One of the key officials behind Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive will be giving testimony behind closed doors on Monday, 18 December 2023. Here's an excerpt from the New York Post's report:

Former state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker will be hauled in front of Congress next week to answer questions about the state’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Zucker will sit Monday for a closed-door, transcribed interview with members of the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

As former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s health czar, Zucker was responsible for a March 2020 order which forced Empire State nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive residents returning from hospitals.

Zucker also forbade nursing homes from testing the returning residents for the virus.

The virus was especially deadly for the elderly, and the order potentially caused 1,000 additional nursing-home deaths, according to an analysis from The Empire Center, a conservative-leaning think tank.

Since resigning as New York Commissioner of Health, Zucker has since joined the Centers for Disease Control as a Biden administration political appointee.