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.
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Go to the Working Families Party list of favored candidates in New York City’s June 22 Democratic primary election and you will find something unprecedented: an endorsement that ranks three contenders for the top job in the nation’s biggest city. In the race for mayor of New York, the WFP declares for City Comptroller Scott Stringer as the party’s first choice, former public school teacher and nonprofit CEO Dianne Morales as the second choice, and civil rights attorney and former MSNBC analyst Maya Wiley as the third choice.
NEW YORK – The Communications Workers of America District 1, 1199SEIU and the New York State Nurses Association issued statements today in support of new, safe staffing legislation introduced in both the Senate and Assembly.
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“We are pleased to see the Legislature take up these important bills after decades of advocacy from the CWA and our union partners. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the longtime crisis of inadequate staffing in our state’s hospitals, resulting in countless preventable deaths, sickness and hardship for our members,” Vice President of CWAD1 Dennis Trainor said. “As we continue our recovery and repair our healthcare system, we must address this long-term issue and ensure that the most vulnerable New Yorkers receive the highest- level of care.
Angered by funds sweep, advocates eye lock box legislation By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 4:47 PM ET Apr. 20, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:47 PM EDT Apr. 20, 2021
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“I feel like Michael’s death doesn’t mean anything to this governor,” he told
Capital Tonight when asked for his reaction to the decision by Andrew Cuomo and the legislature to sweep most of an early tranche of opioid settlement funding into the general fund.
Avi’s son, Michael, took his own life after an eight-year ordeal during which he was diagnosed with an aggressive and painful strain of Crohn’s Disease. After several surgeries, multiple doctors began prescribing opioids for Michael, and he became addicted. When help was not available to him, he took his own life.
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