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Subpoenas and Lawsuits: Health Department Under Pressure


PUBLISHED 7:17 PM ET Feb. 03, 2021
PUBLISHED 7:17 PM EST Feb. 03, 2021
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Pressure is mounting on the state Health Department to release more information on how the COVID-19 virus swept through nursing homes during the pandemic.
On Wednesday, a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the Health Department has five days to release more information on the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes.
The Empire Center filed the lawsuit back in August after the health department kept stalling on releasing this total number of nursing home deaths.
Bill Hammond, a health policy researcher at the Empire Center who was part of this lawsuit, says they are looking for a detailed breakdown of COVID-19 related deaths by facility. ....

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