From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic it was evident that the virus posed the greatest threat to the elderly and the ill. Despite this, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered New York’s nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients – with predictable and deadly results.
Within days of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s order requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients, the deaths of New York’s most vulnerable began to needlessly pile up. These nursing homes begged Governor Cuomo to rescind his order, but he refused – even as the Javits Center and USS Comfort remained nearly empty. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 25, 2020 Order was recently (and quietly) removed from the State’s website.
Governor Cuomo’s aides intimidated and silenced Department of Health officials and deleted at least 3,800 nursing home deaths from an official Department of Health report. This was done for political purposes.
We are learning more about the true magnitude of Governor Cuomo’s cover up on a daily basis.
