“Obviously, they’re troubling and we certainly would support any outside investigation, but those wouldn’t be determined by us,” Psaki told reporters at a briefing Friday afternoon.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo aides altered a report last July by public health officials on nursing home deaths to include only those who died in nursing home facilities but leave out those who died in hospitals.
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The final report said that 6,432 nursing home residents died of the virus, while the initial report put the figure at closer to 10,000 deaths. The New York Times also reported on the effort to alter the data in the report last year.