{"id":200562,"date":"2021-03-04T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/04\/cuomo-advisers-altered-report-on-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-wsj\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:24:00","slug":"cuomo-advisers-altered-report-on-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/04\/cuomo-advisers-altered-report-on-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Advisers Altered Report on Covid-19 Nursing-Home Deaths – WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It now appears that members of the Cuomo administration falsified reports on nursing home deaths from Covid-19<\/a>, one would assume to give their boss some political cover.<\/p>\n

Falsifying official government documents is a crime, and you can be pretty dam sure that hizzonner knew.<\/p>\n

The response to this news should be the AG opening a criminal investigation:<\/p>\n

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s top advisers successfully pushed state health officials to strip a public report of data showing that more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19<\/a> than the administration had acknowledged, according to people with knowledge of the report\u2019s production. <\/p>\n

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The changes Mr. Cuomo\u2019s aides and health officials made to the nursing-home report, which haven\u2019t been previously disclosed, reveal that the state possessed a fuller accounting of out-of-facility nursing-home deaths as early as the summer. The Health Department resisted calls by state and federal lawmakers, media outlets and others to release the data for another eight months.
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No, they falsified their reports.<\/p>\n

That is a very different. and quite illegal, thing.<\/p>\n

State officials now say more than 15,000 residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities were confirmed or presumed to have died from Covid-19 since March of last year\u2014counting both those who died in long-term-care facilities and those who died later in hospitals. That figure is about 50% higher than earlier official death tolls.<\/p>\n

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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn asked the Cuomo administration<\/a> in February for information about nursing-home deaths, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Federal prosecutors expressed interest in the July report, people familiar with the matter said.
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Cuomo has aided and abbeted corruption as a way to further his power for over a decade, see the convictions of New York House Speaker Sheldon Silver and New York Senate leader Dean Skelos for corruption, as well as his actions to shut down his own anti-corruption commission, the Moreland Commission, when it too close to him and his. <\/p>\n

In response to questions from the Journal, administration officials said Thursday that Mr. Cuomo\u2019s advisers advocated against including data on out-of-facility deaths because they had concerns about its accuracy.
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Concerns about accuracy, my ass.  This was a coverup to maximize Cuomo’s political advantage as he attempted to sell himself to the American public as “Governor Covid”. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

State lawmakers from both parties have said the out-of-facility death data was critical for them to evaluate nursing-home policies that could prevent future fatalities. They said the Cuomo administration\u2019s decision to delay its release constitutes a coverup of data the governor knew would be damaging to his political stature. <\/p>\n

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The Justice Department, through its Civil Rights Division, began requesting information about nursing-home deaths from New York and other Democratic-leaning states in August. <\/p>\n

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The initial version of the report submitted to Mr. Cuomo\u2019s team for review included both data on deaths of nursing-home residents in hospitals and deaths of residents inside nursing homes, people familiar with the report\u2019s production said. <\/p>\n

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In January, a report by the New York Attorney General said the state had undercounted nursing-home deaths and said the governor\u2019s directive may have spread the disease.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s corruption all the way down, and I really would like to see Governor Cuomo become defendant Cuomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It now appears that members of the Cuomo administration falsified reports on nursing home deaths from Covid-19, one would assume to give their boss some political cover. Falsifying official government documents is a crime, and you can be pretty dam sure that hizzonner knew. The response to this news should be the AG opening a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1285,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-pandemic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}