The truth is slowly coming out—for months, people have charged that several Governors in the Northeast instituted policies that put nursing home residents at grave risk, then significantly underreported the deaths attributed to their policies.
In Sept. 2021, Fingerlakes1.com published a report noting “at least 16,000 unreported COVID deaths” in “Northeast nursing homes.”
On Wednesday, the New York State Comptroller’s office released a report “confirming that the state had severely undercounted the number of nursing home deaths in the early months of the 2020 COVID pandemic,” according to WBFO NPR,
According to The Daily Wire, New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul stated, “I want to continue working with the comptroller and find out every aspect of the pandemic — what was done right, what was done wrong, should we be in that same situation again.”
Fox News Meteorologist Janice Dean has long held that New York leaders, particularly Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, are guilty of criminal mismanagement of the COVID pandemic and conspiracy to cover crimes and escape responsibility.
Dean was not satisfied with Hochul’s non-specific and placating remark, and blasted Governor Hochul on Twitter, stating flatly, “I don’t believe her.”
Dean, whose husband lost both parents in New York nursing homes due to COVID, also tweeted, “It’s been almost two years. The media is finally catching on to @andrewcuomo’s atrocities in nursing homes and the coverup. Grateful to @TomDiNapoli for being on the side of the angels and reporting the truth in his state audit. @GovKathyHochul you need to stop being complicit.”
Spectrum News 1 reported:
“The findings of an audit conducted by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office — determining New York state health officials under the Cuomo administration undercounted deaths by as much as 4,100 people — largely corroborated Attorney General Letitia James’s own probe, as well as documents released under open records requests.”
Republican State Senator Sue Serino released a statement condemning the Governor for “revisionist history” and asserting: “The state was drastically undercounting these deaths in an effort to deceive New Yorkers, which is what they did, and the question still remains why.”
Few are surprised that Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi dismissed the importance of the report and suggested the timing of the release of the information was politically motivated. Azzopardi said:
“As the number of out-of-facility deaths were reported last January, this is not news, however what is peculiar is the Comptroller’s release of this audit now — but no one has ever accused him of being above politics.”
Assemblyman Ron Kim, however, who, like Dean lost a family member to COVID, countered, “This is the third independent report to verify his misconduct. … His actions were never about protecting our most vulnerable, they were about pure egotism and self-enrichment at the cost of others’ lives.”
Kim added: “We just want to go back and have an accurate read of the death toll numbers. Our families still don’t know if our loved ones and their deaths were actually counted.”
The Insider reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo, once called the “Coronavirus Hero,” helped “create New York’s disaster.”
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