Cuomo: Nursing home probe was toxic politics
Cuomo defends actions
Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused the Trump Justice Department of playing toxic politics. The governor is once again defending the choices he made in the early weeks of the pandemic regarding nursing homes.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice under President Trump of playing politics by starting a probe into nursing home deaths only in blue states. It was politics, Cuomo said. It was toxic politics.
The DOJ, now under President Biden, just
announced it would not open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York. Questions have been raised about whether New York inadvertently worsened the pandemic death toll by requiring nursing homes to accept residents previously hospitalized for
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials in his administration face allegations they covered up the true death toll due to COVID-19 in nursing homes. The state’s tally of deaths in nursing homes had excluded those confirmed in hospitals after residents had been transferred there. Federal and state officials have launched investigations into the Cuomo administration to determine the extent to which the state health department withheld the true death count.
Here is a timeline of the controversy:
March 1 The first case of COVID-19 in New York state is confirmed.