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You are confusing two related but different stories. Back then the talk was about the fact that he sent patients back into nursing homes. It was only later tha
by mmcgaha 5y ago
You are confusing two related but different stories. Back then the talk was about the fact that he sent patients back into nursing homes.
It was only later that we discovered that he actively fudged the numbers by not counting nursing home patients that died in hospitals.
- _-david-_ 5y agoI am not confusing them. There were absolutely articles last year about this (though maybe not as far back as May for this specifically). Here is an article from the Washington Post back in August 2020 > New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there. > That statistic could add thousands to the state’s official care home death toll of just over 6,600. But so far the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number, leading to speculation the state is manipulating the figures to make it appear it is doing better than other states and to make a tragic situation less dire. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/new-yorks-true-nursing-home-death-toll-cloaked-in-secrecy/2020/08/11/f658ebfe-db8a-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/new-yorks-true-nursing...