Posted on 06/13/2024 3:32:31 AM PDT by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, on Tuesday faced a closed-door hearing before the House select subcommittee assigned to investigate government actions taken in response to the outbreak of COVID-19.
In March 2020, Cuomo issued an executive order requiring nursing homes in the Empire State to admit COVID-19 patients – despite the compromised health of residents. In a development widely attributed to the governor’s order, nursing homes immediately saw a wave of COVID-19 deaths among the elderly and infirm.
A February 2021 report by the Empire Center noted that nursing home COVID-19 deaths in New York then stood at over 13,000. The “admission of coronavirus-positive patients into New York nursing homes under March 25 guidance from the New York State Department of Health was associated with a statistically significant increase in resident deaths,” the report found.
“The effect was more pronounced upstate,” where “each positive admission was associated with 0.62 additional deaths (MOE plus or minus 0.17), and any number of positive admissions was associated with 9.33 additional deaths per facility (MOE plus or minus 2.6),” the report explained:
Also in the upstate region, facilities that admitted at least one positive patient during this period accounted for 82 percent of coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents, even though they had only 32 percent of the residents.
Fox News reported Tuesday:
Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic as governor has been a significant focus of the panel’s – in particular, a March 25, 2020, executive order by the then-governor that restricted nursing homes from refusing to admit or readmit residents “solely based on confirmed or suspect[ed] diagnosis of COVID-19.”
House COVID subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, told Fox ahead of the hearing with Cuomo Tuesday: “We want to uncover the circumstances that led to this. There has to be some kind of process where this was written up and he signed it. And we want to make sure that something like this is never repeated.”
While COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations still raged in New York, Cuomo drew a firestorm of criticism for holding press conferences and taking interviews about his administration’s response to the virus – which he boasted of as among the best in the country. In August 2020, the governor announced he was writing a book about his accomplishments during the pandemic.
Fox’s Tuesday report added:
Wenstrup said committee investigators have “several hours of questions” lined up for the former governor, such as “Why was he spending so much time writing a book while we had a pandemic going on, while we have this nursing home problem?” and “Why did it take him so long to rescind [the executive order] when it became very obvious that this was a bad plan?”
Samaritans purse TENT CITY set up in central park and the hospital boat sent by Trump WERE EMPTY! while the hospitals were over flowing and he moved to send them to nursing facilities that were not infected. WHY? I personally knew a head nurse in one of the nursing facilities that pushed back. None of her patients had covid. She was told to step aside and accept covid patients or she and her staff would be fired immediately. HE DELIBERATELY INFECTED, this puke needs to be brought to justice. Where are the families of those he murdered?
He is EVIL
Kill as many voters who remember a much freer republic and are able to pass that knowledge on to future generations.
By any means necessary.
...and voters in NY voted for it and continue to vote for it.
Whitmer next?
I think there was massive voter fraud in the long term care facilities and they killed off the evidence
The one thing we knew about the spread of Covid (Fauci be damned), was those who had compromised immune systems and/or elderly were the most vulnerable. It's the same with the flu and colds every season.
I was so outraged by Cuomo's directive, I was ready to fly to Cuomo's estate and do bad things. Good thing I'm in my 70's or I probably would have ended my life in jail.
Who the hell gave him the idea to do the above? Where was his commonsense? I followed the Tent City and the TWO hospital ships Trump authorized, daily. I thought okay, here is a good idea to slow the infection rate in that area. But no, along comes Cuomo with his idiotic fix as I watched those resources being unused. The man should pay for so many deaths.
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