NY Underreported COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths by Up to 50 Percent: AG Report

The Epoch Times ^ | January 28, 2021 | Jack Phillips

[E. Pluribus Unum]

New York state health officials underreported COVID-19-related nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent in some places, according to a report released by Attorney General Letitia James.

The 76-page report (pdf) released Jan. 28 follows an investigation by James’s office into claims of neglect of patients and other conduct that allegedly led to the deaths of nursing home residents and employees.

“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,” James said in a statement. “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.”

The COVID-related nursing home deaths have been a flashpoint for criticism against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, who has repeatedly pushed back against assertions that his policy played any role in the deaths. The report is sure to trigger more debate on Cuomo’s CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus policies and how he handled nursing homes during the pandemic.

James, a Democrat, said that Cuomo’s decision to order recovering nursing home patients to be returned to the facilities to free up hospital bed space may have led to more deaths. Cuomo—who has touted his administration’s response to the pandemic—has often rejected the notion that this specific policy led to an increase in deaths.

Last year, the Cuomo administration flatly denied the allegations: “Admission policies to nursing homes were not a significant factor in nursing home fatalities. And data suggests that nursing home quality is not a factor in mortality from COVID.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is why they had to get rid of Andy.

[ClearCase_guy]

Unexpected

[pepsionice]

As long as a nursing home (in NYC) functioned as a normal retirement home....the general rate of daily compensation was around $250, on up to $400...a day. This was what Medicare and the state was paying.

Once the governor signed the paperwork to bring in Covid people, they could go to a regular hospital rate (up in the $1,500 range per day). This was mostly about making money.

[fruser1]

"While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves"

I bet you'll see this quote five years from now in a report discussing vaccine injuries.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Accountable for what, again?

[stockpirate]

What NY lie no way, I am shocked I tell you, shocked.

[adorno]

”James said in a statement. “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.”

What Cuomo and his cohorts did, requires accountability, including arrests and prosecutions and prison time.

The individuals who died cannot be brought back, but, reports and transparency, doesn't go far enough to insure that any future administrations won't even think of doing anything that even looks similar to what transpired in 2020.

Criminal actions should be dealt with with just reporting on them or transparency. How many murderers get away with just reports and transparency? What Cuomo and company did, was murder. People have served life sentences or been put to death, for a lot less.

[Mears]

Don’t you mean Medicaid ?

[God luvs America]

yet nothing will happen to this murderer...

[God luvs America]

And don’t forget- il duce cuomo gave all his big money donors who were nursing home CEO’s immunity:

Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home executives after big campaign donations
This article is more than 1 year old

Critics say data proves New York’s liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates during the pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity

[volunbeer]

I think you are correct. I look forward to the day they tell Fauci he should resign.

I know many will respond that it will never happen, but you can only hide the truth for so long and the individual is never more important than the whole. They have tossed their former champions overboard like yesterday’s trash when those people became a liability because the narrative is more important than the narrator.

[Lockbox]

Yes, this is why. But I still want Andy charged with murder!

[unixfox]

Cuomo should be very afraid to show himself in public.

Pathetic waste of human excrement.

[rx]

I suspect the gubmint apparatchiks were hoping to use their Medicare winfall (from non-use by so many deceased grannies) to give themselves all holiday bonuses.

[gitmo]

“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,” James’s report stated.

In one example, in an unidentified facility, 11 confirmed and presumed deaths were reported to the state’s Health Department as having occurred at the facility. However, the attorney general’s survey of the facility found that 40 deaths occurred—including 13 in hospitals and 27 in the nursing home.

It looked deliberate, as did the coverup.