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The dry title of state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s audit, “Use, Collection, and Reporting of Infection Control Data,” covering almost five years from January 2017 until November 2021, underplays its damning core findings: that the state Department of Health under former Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, through initial incompetence and later deception, vastly undercounted the toll of COVID-19 among nursing home residents.

An audit released Tuesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that the state Department of Health was unprepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks at nursing homes—even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York.

An audit released Tuesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that the state Department of Health was unprepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks at nursing homes—even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York.