{"id":166696,"date":"2021-01-30T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andrew-cuomos-appalling-nursing-home-defense\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:36:06","slug":"andrew-cuomos-appalling-nursing-home-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andrew-cuomos-appalling-nursing-home-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andrew Cuomo\u2019s appalling nursing-home defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Andrew Cuomo\u2019s app<\/a>alling nursing-home defense<\/strong>”
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\u201cIt\u2019s not about pointing fingers or blame. This became a political football,\u201d Gov. Cuomo said Friday in response to questions about Attorney General<\/a> Tish James\u2019 finding that the state vastly underreported COVID-19 deaths of nursing-home residents. \u201cWho cares,\u201d he asked, if they died in a home or a hospital? \u201cThey died.\u201d<\/p>\n

What a callous reaction to the deaths of thousands of senior citizens, which James found may have occurred because of Cuomo\u2019s March 25 mandate forcing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. <\/p>\n

And if it doesn\u2019t matter where they died, why did Cuomo and his Health Department work so hard to obscure the number, stonewalling lawmakers\u2019 demands and Freedom of Information filings for months?<\/p>\n

They certainly knew what it was, since Health Commissioner Howard Zucker finally released it the evening James\u2019 report dropped: He said 12,743 nursing-home residents died or were presumed to have died from COVID-19 as of Jan. 19 \u2014 validating James\u2019 estimate of 13,000. <\/p>\n

But earlier in the day, the DOH Web site had that figure at 8,740. Can anyone truly trust Zucker\u2019s new numbers, or is there some other deception? <\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s insane edict \u2014\u00a0which he rescinded in May \u2014\u00a0sent virus-positive patients into the state\u2019s most vulnerable population, as Cuomo himself noted in saying the virus would spread in nursing homes like \u201cfire through dry grass.\u201d That\u2019s why families, and so many others, care how many nursing-home residents died.<\/p>\n

As for the gov\u2019s supposed aversion to pointing fingers, he did it himself in the same press conference: \u201cIf you think there was a mistake, then go talk to the federal government,\u201d he said, again pretending the feds made him issue that March order. \u201cWhere this starts is frankly a political attack from the prior federal administration\u201d and its Health and Human Services spokesman, Michael Caputo.<\/p>\n

Even now that his coverup has been uncovered, Cuomo still can\u2019t apologize. He claimed Friday that everyone in his administration did everything they could to prevent deaths. But what he said earlier in the week was closer to the mark. \u201cIncompetent government kills people,\u201d he declared in an interview. \u201cMore people died than needed to die in COVID. That\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly is.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Andrew Cuomo\u2019s appalling nursing-home defense” \u201cIt\u2019s not about pointing fingers or blame. This became a political football,\u201d Gov. Cuomo said Friday in response to questions about Attorney General Tish James\u2019 finding that the state vastly underreported COVID-19 deaths of nursing-home residents. \u201cWho cares,\u201d he asked, if they died in a home or a hospital? \u201cThey…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/andrew-cuomo-8.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[91277,70430,70344,43,72172,42160],"class_list":["post-166696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-29-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-editorial","tag-letitia-james","tag-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}