ALBANY, N.Y. Any federal investigation into New York’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths will be led by the Department of Justice, the White House said Friday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to weigh in Friday on a scathing report from New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the Cuomo administration of underreporting deaths at elder care facilities during the pandemic. “I .
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1of93Buy PhotoTheodore Kusnierz, chairman of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, speaks as Saratoga County provides an update on COVID-19 and vaccination efforts and a detail decision on high school sports at the Saratoga County Office Building Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of93Buy PhotoTheodore Kusnierz, chairman of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, speaks as Saratoga County provides an update on COVID-19 and vaccination efforts and a detail decision on high school sports at the Saratoga County Office Building Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 in Ballston Spa, N.Y. Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett, chair of Economic Development & Public Works, listens at left. (Lori Va
New York Attorney General Letitia James called for New York to eliminate the immunity provisions, particularly as they applied to nursing homes that knowingly.
arrow Emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn in April of 2020. The nursing home had the highest number of presumed coronavirus-related deaths in the city. John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
New York state nursing homes are experiencing 50 percent more deaths than figures reported by the state health department, according to a report released Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James. Separately, health officials published new data showing that medical staff at these facilities appear to be passing on COVID-19 vaccines despite being first in line.
Since the start of the pandemic, the New York State Department of Health has reported 8,711 deaths among residents at long-term care facilities. That number accounts only for the people who died at the facilities themselves. If a resident with COVID-19 symptoms was sent to a hospital and passed away there, they were not counted in the long-term facilities death toll, as Gothamist reported in