A new report by the anti-Trump hack AG in New York has just found that her own governor and his health department underreported COVID nursing home deaths by a whopping 50%:
FOX NEWS – New York Attorney General Letitia James said that the state Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%, according to a report released Thursday.
The report holds New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s feet to the fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the early months, after he directed nursing homes in the Empire State to accept patients who had or were suspected of having COVID-19. The decision created an onslaught of COVID-19 cases that infected thousands of elderly patients and resulted in hundreds of deaths among the state’s most vulnerable population.
James’ report said that government guidance requiring the admission of COVID-19 patients into nursing homes may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities and may have obscured the data available to assess that risk.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) asked 62 nursing homes to provide data about deaths in their facilities.
In one example, a facility reported five confirmed and six presumed COVID-19 deaths at the facility as of Aug. 3 to the Department of Health, yet reported to the OAG a total of 27 COVID-19 deaths at the facility and 13 hospital deaths — a discrepancy of 29 deaths.
The report, which revealed the findings of an investigation into allegations of patient neglect and other “concerning conduct” that jeopardized the health and safety of both patients and employees, said that some facilities failed to comply with health protocols to stop the spread of the virus.
Nursing homes that had low U.S. Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Staffing ratings were found to have higher COVID-19 fatality rates.
Is it any shock that the governor with the most COVID deaths would undercount and underreport the deaths by those in nursing homes that HIS policies in a large way caused?
But hey, nothing to see here. Cuomo has convinced many in the media that he has the best record on COVID and they aren’t pushing back on the lies at all. In fact, they’ve joined in with the pretense that he was God’s gift to the pandemic or something.
I’m honestly surprised that Letitia Jones could be responsible for such a report. From everything I’ve seen of her, she’s one of the worst political AG hacks in the country. Perhaps she wants Cuomo’s job….