Posted on 01/28/2021 9:18:04 AM PST by lightman
"It’s finally happening," Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "@NYGovCuomo is going to have to answer for his role in the nursing home tragedy and the cover up. The angels won."
After months of investigative work, New York Attorney General Letitia James and her office released their report on the number of COVID-related fatalities in state nursing homes. Over the summer, the New York State Department of Health reported that just over 6,600 people had died from COVID. But as predicted, that number appears to have been severely undercounted, perhaps by as much as 50 percent, the attorney general regretted to announce. New York was the only state in the nation with a major outbreak to not include in their count those individuals who died from COVID after being transferred to the hospital.
Among those findings were that a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent. The investigations also revealed that nursing homes’ lack of compliance with infection control protocols put residents at increased risk of harm, and facilities that had lower pre-pandemic staffing ratings had higher COVID-19 fatality rates. Based on these findings and subsequent investigation, Attorney General James is conducting ongoing investigations into more than 20 nursing homes whose reported conduct during the first wave of the pandemic presented particular concern.
“As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate,” said Attorney General James. “While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents. Nursing homes residents and workers deserve to live and work in safe environments, and I will continue to work hard to safeguard this basic right during this precarious time.”
Janice Dean, who lost both of her in-laws to COVID in separate New York nursing homes, is among many New Yorkers who blame Gov. Cuomo's nursing home mandate for the tragedies. The order essentially forced elder care facilities to accept recovering COVID patients.
Update: New York lawmakers like Rep. Elise Stefanik are beginning to sound off on the devastating report.
"This is now more than a nursing home scandal, this is a massive corruption and coverup scandal at the highest level of New York State Government implicating the Governor, the Secretary to the Governor, the New York State Health Commissioner and the Governor’s staff," Stefanik said in a statement. "Every New Yorker deserves transparency, accountability and answers regarding the orchestration of this illegal coverup. I am calling on the New York Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice to issue subpoenas immediately of Governor Cuomo and his entire staff on all documentation and internal and external communications, including with any and all associations and lobbyists who have direct ties to the Governor’s senior team related to this corrupt and illegal coverup. I am committed to doing everything I can in my power to protect the independence of the ongoing federal investigation into Governor Cuomo's nursing home disaster. President Joe Biden should pledge to do the same. As a fellow New Yorker, I want to publicly thank the effective and tireless advocates who have humbly served as the voice of their lost loved ones and have faced inexcusably cruel treatment from the Governor and his entire team, who we know have orchestrated a criminal coverup and have blood on their hands.
Sure he is. Take a deep breath, hold it and wait for the indictment.
Cuomo’s policies actually sent elderly at risk people into harm’s way and many died as a result.
Then he not only did not go to prison, but he has a popular book on sale advising us from his prominent position on how to face the Covid crisis correctly. Incredible gall.
And you actually believe that?
Would you believe the mainstream media if they told you that wolverines make good house pets?
I will NOT believe this or anything that comes from the media until I saw say, Cuomo being "perp walked" down the aisle of some courtroom. Which will be never...
Didn’t he make himself immune from prosecution?
Cuomo also allowed positive staffers to continue to report to work for months.
Governor Cuomo only killed those people because he wanted to help them.
He and the legislature all have legislative immunity.
They gave the nursing homes immunity from civil and criminal liability.
Wanna get Albany?
Find out why nursing homes took back the sick patients inspite of Fedzilla relaxing regs in March to enable facilities to refuse.
A democrat held accountable while democrats control virtually the entire government.? They weren’t held accountable when Trump was the President because the swamp controlled everything then. The delusion is still strong.
CORONA VIRUS Cuomo Follows Newsom in Easing COVID Restrictions After Biden Inauguration!
“Right on cue.”
Published on 25 January, 2021 Paul Joseph Watson Pacific Press
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has followed Michigan, Chicago and California in announcing plans to ease COVID restrictions, prompting many conservatives to allege that the timing is political.
The Governor said in a press conference that the situation in relation to new cases and hospitalizations was improving, meaning lockdown measures could be relaxed soon.
“Cuomo didn’t give further details on what type of restrictions he might loosen or what cluster zones might be eliminated or changed,” reports Syracuse.com. “The state Health Department is reviewing data on the zones now and Cuomo said expects to have announcements in the coming days.”
Respondents to the story said the move was politically timed to help Joe Biden ultimately claim victory over COVID.
“Yep. Right on cue after Trump is out of office!” remarked one.
In Buffalo holding a COVID briefing. Watch live: https://t.co/J50To0kTv9
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 25, 2021
“Now they will reduce the unreported replication factor for the COVID test, and presto – no more COVID,” said another.
“Amazing how it all disappeared a week after Trump’s gone,” added another.
As we highlighted earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom is also set to lift the stay-at-home order across all regions tomorrow based on data that’s not publicly available.
“Michigan, Chicago, now California. It’s almost as if the “science” changed, once Biden became president? How convenient for Whitmer, Lightfoot, and Newsom?” tweeted Steve Cortes.
“Using small businesses, churches, schools, and citizens as pawns in a crass political game is evil,” he added.
Michigan, Chicago, now California.
@NYGovCuomo is going to have to answer for his role in the nursing home tragedy and the cover up. The angels won.Yeah; the fallen angels. Not expecting James to indict her boss.
and chained to Tom Wolf.......
Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf and Health Sec, Richard “Rachel” Tranny Levine had the identical game plan, same results, except Richard/Rachel made sure he/she got Mom out of the nursing home first. (not your Mom, his Mom...)
which is why after my initial evaluation the real threat from the CCP virus last march (with the many good research papers, freedom first, non-fear based, wise and rational posted here), and as always ignoring the bad, fearful and stupid ones), i decided to keep our elders in their own homes and/or if necessary take them in to ours. never put your mom or dad in a “nursing home” if you can avoid it. we as a family have done what it takes to make that happen and i’m so glad now we did.
“Trump didn’t win, did he?”
Now all the truth can come out that Orange Man is gone.
He's a Democrat. That makes him immune.
Cuomo has a relatively high (reported ) approval rating in NY
Is it TV news? People just don’t think?
I grew up in NY. I remember people thinking and talking about right and wrong.
Reagan won NY.
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