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Cuomo underreported COVID nursing home deaths by up to 50%, New York AG finds

Updated: January 28, 2021 at 12:59 pm EST  See Comments

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NEW YORK, January 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as half, according to a report released Thursday by state Attorney General Letitia James, also a Democrat.

For months, New York was the hardest hit out of any state by the pandemic, due in large part to the coronavirus spreading within the state’s nursing homes, where more than 8,500 deaths have been officially reported as of January. Cuomo ordered that nursing homes cannot turn away patients diagnosed with COVID-19, despite the fact the virus is most dangerous to the elderly.

The attorney general’s office report finds that while state health officials only publicly reported deaths that took place inside nursing homes (as opposed to patients who got sick inside but didn’t die until being transferred to a hospital), they collected data on deaths outside homes as well, indicating a “significantly higher number of resident COVID-19 deaths can be identified than is reflected” in the public tally. The attorney general’s office “is investigating those circumstances where the discrepancies cannot reasonably

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