The Drudge Report on Saturday called out New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over the alleged cover of the number of deaths in the state’s nursing homes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, the most conservative aggregation website shared links to coverage from The Daily Mail and The Associated Press about the nursing home data controversy.
FILE: January 23, 2021 file photo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters at a press conference at a COVID-19 pop-up vaccination site at the William Reid Apartments in New York’s Brooklyn borough.
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The scandal erupted earlier this week, after the governor’s top aide Melissa DeRosa told Democratic lawmakers that the data had been delayed because officials feared the information would be “used against us” by the Justice Department. Trump administration.
The new salvos from Republicans and Cuomo’s fellow Democrats mark a stark turnaround from the pandemic’s early days, when Cuomo’s daily briefings helped bolster a national reputation for leadership. The briefings, in which he pledged to deliver ‘just the facts’, earned him an international Emmy and helped lead him to his book ‘American Crisis’.
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The Cuomo government reported dramatically the number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term residents for months. It’s now close to 15,000, up from the 8,500 previously announced.
The new toll is about one-seventh of the roughly 90,000 people living in nursing homes as of 2019 in New York, which has one of the most nursing home residents in the country.
Cuomo has pointed to a small but growing body of research suggesting that uncontrolled community spread is the biggest factor in nursing home outbreaks, and he has said insufficient assistance from the federal government with travel restrictions, testing, and protective equipment New York City and its suburbs particularly vulnerable.
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He has dismissed criticism as political, noting that the thousands of deaths of nursing home residents in hospitals were always counted in the state’s total number.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.