Cuomo has blood on his hands. https://www.breitbart.com/health/20...g-home-deaths-to-avoid-federal-investigation/ Andrew Cuomo’s Aide Admits NY Hid COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths to Avoid Federal Investigation Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) top aide admitted that her team withheld the number of deaths related to COVID-19 in New York’s nursing homes to shield the Cuomo government from federal investigation and political scrutiny. The New York Post reported on Thursday that Melissa DeRosa, New York’s secretary to the governor, apologized to Democrat state legislators for “political” damage caused by the Cuomo government’s suppression of information related to nursing home COVID-19 deaths.
Some more information... Andrew Cuomo administration hid nursing home deaths out of fear Trump would prosecute them: report https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-cuomo-2650506509/ On Thursday, according to the New York Post, an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has admitted that the state government didn't report the true number of deaths in nursing homes — in part out of fear that former President Donald Trump would order federal prosecutors to build a case against them. "The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because 'right around the same time, [Trump] turns this into a giant political football,' according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting," reported Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding. "He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes," DeRosa said. "He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer," said DeRosa on the call, adding that Trump "direct[ed] the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us ... and basically, we froze." Last March, Cuomo's health officials directed nursing homes in New York not to refuse access to COVID-19 patients released from hospitals as long as they were medically stable. This in and of itself wasn't necessarily out of line with medical consensus at the time; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had similar guidelines for nursing homes, to ensure hospitals didn't run out of beds. But unlike CMS, New York's order did not explicitly have an exception for facilities that didn't have the full ability to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients. This may have worsened the spread among a population that was particularly at risk of life-threatening complications, and has become a sharp controversy as Cuomo has sought to tout his efforts to contain the virus in his state as a success story. Trump himself, who seized on the mismanagement of nursing home policy in New York to try to shift blame off his own pandemic response failures, may ultimately have made the problem worse, by repealing regulations that allowed nursing home residents and their families to sue over substandard health practices.
Here is even more information..... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...avirus-powers-following-nursing-home-coverup/ Democrats Want to Strip Gov. Cuomo of Coronavirus Powers Following Nursing Home Coverup https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/ny-dems-want-cuomos-covid-powers-gone-amid-nursing-home-bombshell/ NY Dems want Cuomo to lose COVID powers after Post nursing home bombshell A group of Democratic state senators demanded Friday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo be stripped of his emergency authority to deal with the coronavirus crisis in the wake of The Post’s revelation that his administration covered up nursing home death data because of a pending federal probe. “While COVID-19 has tested the limits of our people and state — and, early during the pandemic, required the government to restructure decision making to render rapid, necessary public health judgments — it is clear that the expanded emergency powers granted to the Governor are no longer appropriate,” the 14 lawmakers said in a prepared statement. “While the executive’s authority to issue directives is due to expire on April 30, we urge the Senate to advance and adopt a repeal as expeditiously as possible.”
Democrats always circle the wagons and defend each other. I guess, it becomes politically a huge loser when, the so called darling of extreme liberals including, our resident ET trolls gets exposed for his ineptness and incompetence. President Donald Trump gave New York all the aid in huge numbers including, setting up a field hospital at Javits Center with 2900 beds mind you yet, Andrew Cuomo stuffed sick Corona Virus patients in nursing homes? That is criminal in itself but, as usual FBI and DOJ looking the other way. Too many swamp creatures preventing justice from ever happening.
CNN editor brings out the big guns and says cuomo's covid performance "may have been less stellar than it seemed." Ya think? Wayyy to go CNN. Another hard hitting opinion piece. Be careful. Don't want to upset brother Chris. Andrew Cuomo's Covid-19 performance may have been less stellar than it seemed https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/politics/andrew-cuomo-covid-19-new-york/index.html Meanwhile. And yes, he is a republican. CNN has already covered the democrat's response, Former Gov. George Pataki unloaded on Gov. Andrew Cuomo, calling the COVID-19 nursing home death reporting “cover-up” scandal “one of the worst things I have seen in state government.” During an interview on AM 570 WMCA radio, Pataki called Cuomo’s nursing home policies and actions “inhumane,” “reprehensible,” “outrageous,” “despicable” and “beyond the pale.” He called for a criminal probe by the Biden Justice Department, state Attorney General Letitia James and independent investigation conducted by the state Legislature. “This is one of the worst things I have seen in New York State government, and I’ve been following this for a long time,” Pataki said of the nursing home death cover-up.
Actually CNN has provided a lot of recent commentary critical of Cuomo for the nursing home fiasco. For example... The story keeps getting worse for Andrew Cuomo on Covid-19 https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-covid-19/index.html Amid the swirling controversy over whether New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration knowingly undercounted deaths among nursing home residents during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state, a top aide for the governor apologized to Democratic lawmakers, saying the administration "froze" when initially asked by state legislators back in August about the issue. Which is a stunning admission. And seems to jibe with a report released last month by New York Attorney General Letitia James that suggested that Cuomo's administration undercounted deaths among nursing home residents by as much as 50%. "Preliminary data obtained by [the Office of the Attorney general] suggests that many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [the Department of Heath's] published total nursing home death data," read the summary of the report. The aide, Melissa DeRosa, sought to clarify her remarks. "I was explaining that when we received the DOJ inquiry, we needed to temporarily set aside the Legislature's request to deal with the federal request first," she said in a statement provided to CNN. "We informed the houses of this at the time. We were comprehensive and transparent in our responses to the DOJ, and then had to immediately focus our resources on the second wave and vaccine rollout. As I said on a call with legislators, we could not fulfill their request as quickly as anyone would have liked." What DeRosa is arguing is that the Cuomo administration essentially put requests from the New York state legislature for more details on nursing home deaths on hold while they dealt with requests for similar information from the Department of Justice. But that's not what she told Democratic lawmakers in New York on a virtual conference call on Wednesday. As CNN has reported of that conversation: According to a source who participated in the call, "DeRosa said the administration essentially 'froze' because it wasn't sure what information it was going to turn over to the DOJ, and didn't want whatever was told the lawmakers in response to the state joint committee hearing inquiries to be used against it in any way." And that is a very different animal. Because the latter explanation suggests that the reason the Cuomo administration didn't release the full details of deaths in nursing homes to state legislators is because they were concerned about how that data might be used against them, politically speaking, if it fell into the hands of the Trump administration. Which is a very bad look -- to say the least. This is only the latest bit of evidence that suggests the Cuomo administration may not have dealt as effectively with the coronavirus pandemic as was initially believed. Cuomo's actions related to nursing homes have been under considerable scrutiny since May, when reports suggested that his Department of Health had blocked nursing homes from rejecting residents based solely on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis. Cuomo rejected that report, insisting he had followed federal guidance on that front. "New York followed the President's agency's guidance, so that de-politicizes it," Cuomo said at the time. "What New York did was follow what the Republican administration said to do." (Cuomo announced a new policy on May 10, saying a hospital cannot discharge a person who is Covid positive to a nursing home.) DeRosa's comments will supercharge an already combustible situation for Cuomo as he prepares to run for reelection in 2022. In the aftermath of the report, several prominent Republicans called on Cuomo to resign. While that won't happen, there's no question that the nursing home story just got worse for Cuomo. And that it now threatens what once looked like a cakewalk to a history-making fourth term next November.