https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/01/29/andrew-cuomo-self-destructs-during-combative-presser-on-nursing-homes-report-gives-up-the-game-video-n318632
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration was deliberately doing an end-run around official state reports on nursing home/assisted living facility deaths by changing the way nursing home deaths were calculated.
True to form, most national media outlets either ignored the story, sugarcoated it, or “reported” it from the perspective that it was a partisan hit job from the right designed to discredit the media’s favorite pandemic governor.
10 months later, the chickens are coming home to roost for Cuomo thanks to NY’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James, which my colleague Nick Arama detailed yesterday. ICYMI, James announced that the number of nursing home deaths could be as much as 50% higher than had been previously reported. Instead of 8,711 deaths, the number could actually be 13,000 or higher.
“Incompetent government kills people,” from the horsehead’s mouth…
Trust the government
The press is turning on the CO gov Polis too. Well the price is definitely left-wing, I think they want to make a point to the Democrats politicians that press in charge.
They are purging the middle ground.
Cuomo is an ass. but a very predictable one and not as far left as they would like, thus you get this.
FIFY. :rolleyes:
But but…
NEW YORK (WABC) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo received the Founders Award at the 48th International Emmy Awards in recognition of his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The award was presented Monday by International Academy President & CEO Bruce Paisner, with help from Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Billy Joel in a special video.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/02/01/andrew-cuomos-house-of-cards-finally-comes-crashing-down-n319857
As per usual, the Times and other legacy outlets are months behind the curve on finally noticing Cuomo’s disastrous oversight of the coronavirus pandemic in his state. For example, I reported here at RedState on Cuomo covering up the numbers of nursing home victims all the way back in August (see Andrew Cuomo Finally Gets Hit, Real Nursing Home Death Numbers Are Staggering). The legacy media didn’t get around to making it a story until last week (as my colleague Jennifer Van Laar reported) and that was only because New York’s own far-left Attorney General pointed it out.
As I said, all of the information about Cuomo’s garbage policies was staring them in their partisan faces for most of the last year. Yet, they defended him, they elevated him, and they attacked others in his place. The only reason they are willing to throw Cuomo over board now is because Trump is gone. That’s literally the extent of it. If Trump were still president, that report on the nursing home deaths would have never seen the light of day – or at least that’s my opinion on the matte
I don’t think the AG is going to let this matter slip away and let Cuomo walk.
She should not let it slip away, New Yorkers that lost loved ones due to Cuomo’s inept Covid response deserve answers. He was provided with a state of the art military hospital ship and the Javits Center was converted to an emergency field hospital at taxpayer expense, by all accounts both were under utilized. Manipulation of the statistics is purely political. Meanwhile Coumo is basking in the limelight of his celebrity and blaming his shortcomings on the Feds response. Most people see through it, I hope that this puts an end to any higher political aspirations he might have…
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2021/02/12/ny-governors-office-withheld-data-on-deaths-of-nursing-homes-patients-to-obstruct-a-federal-investigation-n324591
In August the New York State Legislature made a request to the Governor’s Office for data on deaths of patients in nursing homes attributed to COVID-19.
The NY Department of Health collects data in real-time regarding deaths of nursing home patients, and in August 2020 the DOH website showed only 6500 such deaths. But there was widespread speculation in the media and in the Legislature that this number was not accurate. Legislation was proposed — but never passed — that would have addressed what was thought to be a hole in the reporting. The DOH was only recording deaths of nursing homes’ patients who died in the nursing home, but this fact was not clear from the data on the website.
On Thursday it was revealed that a Secretary to the Governor, Melissa De Rosa, apologized to lawmakers in a conference call for purposely withholding the accurate information. Not included in the data on the DOH website were deaths of nursing homes’ patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19, and died while still in the hospital or some other location like an assisted-living facility. The actual number of nursing homes’ patients who died of COVID-19 is over 15,000. The 6500 number reflected only nursing homes’ patients who died in their nursing home although the Governor’s Office made it seem like that was the total number of COVID deaths in that segment of the population.
So it is a Conspiracy now?
I got $20 that says not one Goddamn thing of any significance will happen to him as a result.
Takers?
This is should be a clue- you are LIVESTOCK to them.
Well, they are admitting to lying at this point and the left are working with the Republicans at this point.
They are apologizing to Democratic Law makers and not the people who’s kin died in those Nursing Homes.
As we expected. They are now starting to eat each other. I think Trump not being in office may be fact be a net win long term as they don’t have the orange man to blame for everything, it will be a cluster F the next 4 years, people will see it, and I suspect a GOP candidate will have an excellent chance next time, where they would have had none if Trump had won as they’d spend another 4 years doing all they could to destroy the economy etc and pin it all on Trump.
That’s the long term view I see.
Nope!
This is what Cuomo wanted though, so I hope he at least chokes on it for a while.
I’ve arrived at broadly the same conclusion, and why I’m practically happy that the current senate trial debacle is carrying on - it’s costing them time, and frankly what little governing mandate the Dems have is basically getting spent trying to divide a party that has already had to come to terms with being a bigger tent that most constituents typically want… I figure they have a plan to try and make that into lasting damage, but it does show that larger media outlets will eventually have to re-encounter actual journalism if they want to survive, and the obvious is only avoidable for so long.
Leticia James is an ambitious shark who smells blood in the water–that blood coming from the current occupant of the office she wants to move into. The NRA and this thing with Cuomo are just chess-gaming to clear her path to the Big Chair in Albany.
As a NYer I agree,in a week this will be old news !! I hope it isn’t but I just don’t have the faith, at least when it comes to holding people like this scum bag accountable!
Anything but admit he was wrong and his handling was a murderous disaster.
This asshole might just go down for this shit.