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
I know about the warehousing of caronavirus cases the nursing homes and was addressing the headline.