7 June 2024: Cuomo to Testify on NY COVID Nursing Home Policies on 11 June 2024

Cuomo to be questioned by COVID subcommittee for nursing home deaths

Andrew M. Cuomo is scheduled to testify under oath before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 June 2024. This article gives a preview of some of the questions will be raised with respect to Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive and its consequences.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is slated to appear before Congress on Tuesday in a closed-door interview to answer for the outsize number of nursing home deaths in the Empire State during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic subpoenaed the former governor in March. It set June 11 as the date for testimony after several months of scheduling delays.

The panel’s chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), said in a press statement on Friday that it is “well past time for Cuomo to stop dodging accountability” for his nursing home policy in 2020 that required care facilities to accept COVID-positive patients.

“Not only did the former Governor put the elderly in harm’s way, but he also attempted to cover-up his failures by hiding the true nursing home death rate,” Wenstrup said.

Cuomo issued an order on March 25, 2020, that prohibited nursing homes from denying readmission or admission on the basis of a positive COVID test. The former governor has publicly argued even after leaving office that the controversial order followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance at the time.

This entry was added to the timeline on 8 June 2024.