New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s advisers revealed that his state’s laws have been very flexible on nursing homes and that no facility has lost its licenses despite the widespread deaths of COVID-19.
“I think a lot of these nursing homes, frankly, in retrospect, even before COVID have been getting away with it for years,” Governor Cuomo’s secretary Melissa DeRosa said, according to the audio from last week’s conference call with Democratic lawmakers. evaluated by The New York Post.
“I think if there is any evidence that someone was intentional or negligent in a way that goes beyond the normal course that costs people’s lives, I think we all share the same goal, which is to hold them accountable,” DeRosa added.
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- Cuomo’s lawyer, Beth Garvey, acknowledged that the revocation of nursing home licenses “has not yet taken place”.
- A court order and a report by the state attorney general forced the state to recognize that the death toll of asylum residents is almost 15,000, when previously reported 8,500.
Brian Stelter of CNN and “Saturday Night Live” ignored the bomb about the growing scandal at the governor’s nursing home over the weekend.
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