Zucker defends response to COVID; not everyone buys it
WWNY Zucker defends response to COVID; not everyone buys it By Scott Atkinson | February 25, 2021 at 6:38 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 9:59 PM
ALBANY, N.Y. (WWNY) - A top Cuomo administration official defended the administration’s handling of COVID in New York’s nursing homes Thursday.
Not everyone bought it.
Dr. Howard Zucker appeared before members of the state legislature for what was supposed to be a hearing on the Department of Health budget. But it was the first time Zucker had appeared before legislators to answer questions in months, and they weren’t about to let it go to waste. (Zucker is the head of the health department.)
New York State's Senate and Assembly put Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker on the hot seat during their virtual budget hearing on healthcare Thursday. Listen to Senator Joe Griffo grill the commissioner on Thursday.
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Gov. Cuomo says state should have released nursing home data faster, but says there is no cover-up
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 20, 2021, 8:35am EST
Gov. Andrew
Cuomo says the state should have been more transparent about nursing home deaths
from the coronavirus, but says there is no cover-up.
The governor says not releasing information faster on nursing homes was a “mistake,”
but he did not apologize at Friday’s press conference.
New York Attorney General Letitia James says the state’s nursing home death
toll was nearly 15,000; a number far greater than the 8,500 originally reported
by the governor’s office.