Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll
Aides to the New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, repeatedly prevented state health officials from releasing the number of nursing home deaths in the pandemic.
The number of nursing home residents who died in the pandemic has been a particularly sensitive question for the Cuomo administration.Credit...Pool photo by Shannon Stapleton
Published April 28, 2021Updated May 19, 2021
The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents.