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Debunking the Empire Center Analysis Attributing Nursing Home Covid-19 Deaths to DOH Policy
Commentary #15
by Paul Francis
September 8, 2024
Introduction (Excerpt)
Four-and-a-half years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, critics of the Cuomo administration continue to make the false claim that guidance from the New York State Department of Health designed to facilitate discharges by hospitals of stable Covid-19 patients to nursing homes significantly contributed to nursing home deaths.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to testify at a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The subcommittee chairman, Representative Brad Wenstrup, Republican of Ohio, said in a statement: “Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic,” due to “potentially fatal nursing home policies.
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