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Hugs and board games are back, new nursing home guidelines welcome family visits, regardless of your vaccination status CNN 3/12/2021 © KTRK A nursing home resident holding a loved one using the hugging booth. You can hug your vaccinated grandpa and stay to play cards with him at his nursing home, even if you havent been vaccinated, according to new Covid-19 guidance for nursing homes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The guidance goes into effect immediately. These reco...

Was Phil Murphy concerned with the public health or his political health in his handling of the COVID crisis? That should be the subject of a legislative investigation

Updated 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 Jerseys 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...

Why ‘Cuomo’s death order’ didn’t really cause NY’s nursing home carnage. A reality check Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 Dr. Howard Zucker, left, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, listens to Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss the states preparedness for the spread of coronavirus during a news conference, Monday, March 2, 2020 in New York.Mark Lennihan | AP Photo Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. – To hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s critics tell it, March 25 is a dat...

The plaudits have faded for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once hailed as a paragon of pandemic governing, he’s since come under scorching criticism

The plaudits have faded for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once hailed as a paragon of pandemic governing, he's since come under scorching criticism for undercounting the state's covid deaths among nursing home residents by as much as half.

LAUREN GILGER: As more people around the state are being allowed to sign up for vaccination every day, residents and staff at long term care facilities — who were included in the first group of those to get the vaccines — are still in the process of getting their shots. And while progress is being made, there is still a long way to go before everyone in this high-risk group is protected. And joining me now to talk about where things are and where things are going is KJZZ’s Kathy Ritch...

Fox News correspondent-at-large slams New York governor’s response to the pandemic on ‘The Daily Briefing.’ When did New York become its own country? Apparently, this week, when media favorite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s delusions of grandeur prompted him to try to restrict travel from the United Kingdom to what Cuomo seems to believe is the Kingdom of New York. The New York Democrat, who ascended to the throne of New York largely because he is the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, decided to ele...