If they died in the hospital they were still were recorded as caronavirus death. So the overall total is valid.
Looks like you completely missed the point of the article.
New York has a scandal specifically around nursing homes, where the governor actually mandated that they accept coronavirus patients. Surprise, New York has a death count wildly in excess of the nation as a whole. Because old people are the most vulnerable population.
The article has nothing to do with contesting the overall count of coronavirus deaths. It has to do with under-reporting how bad this scandal is specifically around nursing homes
Yeah but it hides the fact that the policy of sending sick people to nursing homes and leaving them there is what killed them.