Is Cuomo's COVID Cover-Up Crashing? AP Finally Reports His Nursing Home Death Undercount

Jeff Reynolds-Opinion : Aug 12, 2020
PJMedia.com

"...So far the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number, leading to speculation the state is manipulating the figures to make it appear it is doing better than other states..." -AP

[PJMedia.com] The Associated Press finally noticed Andrew Cuomo's shell game. On Tuesday, the AP ran a report titled, "New York's true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy." If only someone had noticed before now. (Image: AP Photo-Mark Lennihan, File)

The report begins:

NEW YORK (AP) — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed facility.

The truth, according to the home, is far worse: 21 dead, most transported to hospitals before they succumbed.

"It was a cascading effect," administrator Emil Fuzayov recalled. "One after the other."

New York's coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.

That statistic could add thousands to the state's official care home death toll of just over 6,600. But so far the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number, leading to speculation the state is manipulating the figures to make it appear it is doing better than other states and to make a tragic situation less dire... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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