{"id":210636,"date":"2021-03-25T01:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/one-year-later-cuomo-wont-admit-deadly-nursing-home-mandate-was-a-mistake\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T01:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:52:16","slug":"one-year-later-cuomo-wont-admit-deadly-nursing-home-mandate-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/one-year-later-cuomo-wont-admit-deadly-nursing-home-mandate-was-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"#One year later, Cuomo won’t admit deadly nursing-home mandate was a mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#One year later, Cuomo won’t admit deadly nursing-home mandate was a mistake<\/strong>”
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Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s deadly nursing-home mandate \u2014 which he still won\u2019t acknowledge was a mistake. He\u2019s even shrugged off questions about its impact with a callous, \u201cWho cares?\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 25, 2020, Cuomo\u2019s Department of Health issued the infamous order that forced nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. They weren\u2019t even allowed to test<\/em> admissions for the virus. Why? His donor pals at the Greater New York Hospital Association were worried hospitals would become overwhelmed (which never happ<\/a>ened).<\/p>\n

Home operators immedia<\/a>tely protested, but the administration refused to let them put contagious patients in the field hospital at the Javits Center or on the USNS Comfort \u2014\u00a0even though Cuomo had warned the virus would spread through nursing homes \u201clike fire through dry grass.\u201d <\/p>\n

The order became public knowledge only after The Post\u2019s Bernadette Hogan asked about it at a press conference. Eventually, the resulting public furor led Team Cuomo to quietly rescind it \u2014 while leaving intact a similar order that covered homes for the developmentally disabled.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DOH quit including in its tally of nursing-home COVID deaths those who died after being transferred to hospitals. The draft of a July DOH report included the full toll, but Cuomo\u2019s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and Health Commissioner Howard Zucker got that data deleted from the final product. <\/p>\n

The DOH stonewalled Freedom of Information requests for the numbers for at least eight months, even refusing to tell state lawmakers \u2014 falsely claiming that it couldn\u2019t compile the data accurately.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Attorney General<\/a> Tish James released a damning report in January suggesting the state was undercounting nursing-home deaths by 50 percent that Team Cuomo came clean: In a single day, the count changed from 8,711 deaths to 12,743.<\/p>\n

How did the gov respond? \u201cWho cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died.\u201d People care because some of them died because<\/em> of your order, sir.<\/p>\n

Team Cuomo\u2019s cover story for the coverup was supposed fears that the Trump crowd would weaponize the truth. In fact, the coverup started months before Washington started asking any questions. <\/p>\n

Oh, and Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens), whose uncle died of COVID in a nursing home, says the gov personally threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him if he didn\u2019t back Team Cuomo\u2019s excuses. <\/p>\n

Kim stood his ground and spoke to a Brooklyn memorial last weekend honoring the more than 15,000 nursing-home residents who\u2019ve died. So did other family members of those lost, like Tracey Alvino. \u201cHe is one of Gov. Cuomo\u2019s uncounted,\u201d she told the crowd of her late father. \u201cHe may be just a number to Melissa DeRosa that she omitted from her report, but to my family, he was the glue that kept us together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo still hasn\u2019t learned his lesson. Indeed, he\u2019s still out to please the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Empire Center reports, by pushing a new law to make insurers reimburse hospital claims without verifying that treatment is medically necessary.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s utterly shameless.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#One year later, Cuomo won’t admit deadly nursing-home mandate was a mistake” Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s deadly nursing-home mandate \u2014 which he still won\u2019t acknowledge was a mistake. He\u2019s even shrugged off questions about its impact with a callous, \u201cWho cares?\u201d On March 25, 2020, Cuomo\u2019s Department of Health issued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/032420govcuomocoronavirus41MATT.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[99053,70430,70344,43,42160],"class_list":["post-210636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-24-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-editorial","tag-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210636","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=210636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}