arrow Emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn in April of 2020. The nursing home had the highest number of presumed coronavirus-related deaths in the city. John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
New York state nursing homes are experiencing 50 percent more deaths than figures reported by the state health department, according to a report released Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James. Separately, health officials published new data showing that medical staff at these facilities appear to be passing on COVID-19 vaccines despite being first in line.
Since the start of the pandemic, the New York State Department of Health has reported 8,711 deaths among residents at long-term care facilities. That number accounts only for the people who died at the facilities themselves. If a resident with COVID-19 symptoms was sent to a hospital and passed away there, they were not counted in the long-term facilities death toll, as Gothamist reported in
New York Undercounted Nursing Home Deaths, AG Report Finds UPDATED 12:43 PM ET Jan. 28, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:16 AM ET Jan. 28, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:16 AM EST Jan. 28, 2021
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Deaths in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been undercounted by as much as 50%, according to a report released on Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James s office.
“As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate,” James said.
“While we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents. Nursing homes residents and workers deserve to live and work in safe environments, and I will continue to work hard to safeguard this basic ri
New York Capitol Braces for Protests PUBLISHED 4:35 PM ET Jan. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:35 PM EST Jan. 15, 2021
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It was quiet Friday night outside of the state Capitol building in Albany. State Street has been closed to vehicle traffic, with concrete barriers acting as a deterrent.
But all levels of law enforcement are bracing for protests at the state Capitol starting this weekend and running into the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden next week. Anyone who comes to the Capitol with the intent of causing violence or damage to public property, will be arrested, said New York State Police Major Christopher West at a news conference.
Confusion Over When New York Inmates Will Be Vaccinated PUBLISHED 5:43 AM ET Jan. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:43 AM EST Jan. 06, 2021
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State lawmakers received conflicting information on Tuesday surrounding when prison inmates in New York would be administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker and Larry Schwartz, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo now handling the state’s vaccine program, remotely answered lawmaker questions on vaccine distribution.
NY1 s Zack Fink reported earlier in the day lawmakers in the majority Democratic conferences in the state Senate and Assembly were told inmates in state prisons would be the next to receive the COVID-19 vaccine along with correctional officers, as part of the state’s 1b phased plan.