‘The Public Was Misled’: Audit Finds New York Undercounted Nursing Home Deaths, Cuomo Tried To Cover Up – By Brianna Lyman (Daily Caller) / March 16, 2022
The New York State Department of Health undercounted the number of COVID-19 related nursing home deaths by more than 4,000 while Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in office, according to an audit released Tuesday.
State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released the audit, which showed nursing home deaths were undercounted between April of 2020 and February of 2021 by 4,071. A total of 13,147 deaths occurred during that time but just 9,076 were reported.
The audit states the health department “was not transparent in its reporting of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes.”
“Whether due to the poor-quality data that it was collecting initially or, later, a deliberate decision, for certain periods during the pandemic, the Department understated the number of deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%,” the audit states.
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