"Last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was taking victory laps, doing book tours, and accepting awards over his supposedly magnificent handling of the Wuhan virus crisis.
... this year ... there was NY’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James detailing ... how the number of nursing home deaths in the state could be as much as 50% higher than previously reported (the current number at the time of her report stood at 8,711).
... Cuomo’s callous “Who cares where they died?” response to the story only made matters worse.
... the governor’s office admitting during a video conference call to Democratic NY lawmakers that they deliberately withheld data on nursing homes patient deaths in order to head off a potential federal investigation by Trump’s DOJ.
... The new number of 9,056 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what the state health department previously released.
And it raises new questions as to whether a March 25 (2020) directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration helped spread sickness and death among residents, a charge the state disputes.
... the Cuomo administration has been forced in recent weeks to acknowledge it has been under reporting the overall number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term care residents.
It is now nearly 15,000 up from the 8,500 previously disclosed.
... questions were being raised by conservative media outlets starting in April 2020 about his nursing home policy, and the way deaths were being calculated.
... most national mainstream media outlets either ignored the story, sugarcoated it, or “reported” it from the perspective that it was a partisan hit job from the right designed to discredit the media’s favorite pandemic governor.
Many news networks were effectively spokespeople for Cuomo from start to finish, with CNN, in particular, leading the way in painting a false image of Cuomo as Andrew the Great while using President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as whipping boys to blame for all of Cuomo’s disastrous mistakes."
