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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top advisers had successfully pushed the state's health officials to strip a public report of data that showed more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19 than acknowledged by the administration, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The New York Times said top aides were alarmed by the number of deaths, more than 9,000 at the time in June, at a time when that information was not available.
State Health Department officials omitted from a public report full data about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes at the behest of Gov. Cuomo’s top advisers, it was reported Thursday. As a result, the report issued in July counted only people who died in nursing homes — and didn’t include people sickened in nursing homes who later died in hospitals, the Wall Street Journal said.
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-NEW YORK-CUOMO (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Advisers of New York governor pushed for changes in nursing home deaths report - papers
The Cuomo administration's reporting of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes drew more criticism after it was revealed the total death count was stripped from a state report.