The Drudge Report called New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday about his administration’s alleged cover-up over the death toll in state nursing homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, the more conservative trend aggregation site shared links to coverage by The Daily Mail and The Associated Press about the nursing home data controversy.
ARCHIVE: Archival photo of January 23, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a press conference at a COVID-19 vaccination site in the William Reid apartments in Brooklyn, New York.
(AP)
The scandal broke out earlier this week after the governor’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, told Democratic lawmakers that the data was delayed because officials feared the information “would be used against us” by the government’s Justice Department. Trump.
The new salvos of Cuomo’s Republicans and fellow Democrats marked a major upheaval since the early days of the pandemic, when Cuomo’s daily instructions helped cement a national reputation for leadership. The briefings, in which he promised to present “only the facts”, earned him an International Emmy and helped lead to his book, “American Crisis”.
NY ASSEMBLY REQUIRES CUOMO TO LAUNCH COMPLETE NURSING CALL TRANSCRIPTION WHILE GOV REMAINS IN SILENCE
The Cuomo administration for months has dramatically underestimated the number of COVID-19 deaths across the state among long-term care residents. There are now almost 15,000, against 8,500 previously reported.
The new figure comes to about one-seventh of the approximately 90,000 people who lived in nursing homes in 2019 in New York, which has one of the largest nursing home residents in the country.
Cuomo pointed to a small but growing body of research suggesting that the uncontrolled spread of the community is the biggest factor in outbreaks in nursing homes, and he said that inadequate federal government assistance with travel restrictions, testing and protective equipment has left New York City and its particularly vulnerable suburbs.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION
He considered criticism to be political and noted that the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents in hospitals have always been counted in the state’s overall count.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.