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4 Mar 2021 A report released last month by the Empire Center for Public Policy undermines claims by the New York State Department of Health that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) controversial March 25 order requiring nursing homes in the state to admit coronavirus-positive residents had no impact on nursing home coronavirus death rates. In that report, titled, “COVID-positive Admissions Were Correlated with Higher Death Rates in New York Nursing Homes,” the Albany, New York, based think tank concluded, “The admission of coronavirus-positive patients into New York nursing homes under March 25 guidance from the New York State Department of Health was associated with a statistically significant increase in resident deaths.” ....
HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (WABC) People in nursing homes have been especially vulnerable and isolated during the pandemic and many have not seen their loved ones in person for months. Now that New York State has started to allow family visitation again, Eyewitness News is taking a look at how facilities are keeping their residents safe. There was a special reunion at the Nassau Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Hempstead on Wednesday. Jocelyn Moor, a 93-year-old resident, got to see her daughter and son-in-law for the first time in months. And while there was no close contact, and just air hugs, there were moments of tenderness and almost normalcy. ....
Republicans in the New York State Senate claimed Friday that policies enacted by the state during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic may have put ....
3:56 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff were in damage control mode Thursday as they faced two scandals; the governor’s handling of nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations that the Democrat sexually harassed a former staffer. Cuomo’s health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, testified at a long awaited legislative budget hearing. Zucker, who had postponed his testimony, originally scheduled for three weeks ago, appeared two and a half hours late. He immediately addressed the nursing home controversy. Zucker says like all of the pandemic policies being put into place last spring, including those affecting nursing homes, decisions had to made quickly, before science made things more clear. ....
The New York State Senate is poised to strip Governor Andrew Cuomo of some emergency pandemic powers and create an oversight commission to review the ....