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Mar 05, 2021
The Nursing Home Decision That Haunts Andrew Cuomo
While New York’s governor comes under fire for sketchy data on nursing home deaths from COVID-19, New Jersey s governor wins praise for telling it straight.
One year ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) made a decision that would come to haunt him.
COVID-19 was pounding New York while much of the country watched the crisis that was to soon overtake their states as well. Taking advantage of emergency powers that allowed him to make pandemic policy unilaterally, Cuomo’s Department of Health informed nursing homes in late March that they could not deny admission to patients discharged from hospitals “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”
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Dr. Howard Zucker, left, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, listens to Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss the state s preparedness for the spread of coronavirus during a news conference, Monday, March 2, 2020 in New York.Mark Lennihan | AP Photo
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Syracuse, N.Y. – To hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s critics tell it, March 25 is a date that will live in infamy.
On that date, Cuomo’s health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, sent a memo directing nursing homes to help free up hospital beds by taking Covid-19 patients into their facilities.