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New York nursing homes will resume indoor visitations on Friday under new rules that ease current COVID-19 testing requirements for visitors and increase the capacity for each facility, state officials said Monday.
The new visitor testing guidelines vary based on the amount of coronavirus cases spreading in each county, state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said during a conference call with reporters.
Among the new rules:
No visitor testing would be required for nursing homes in counties with COVID test positivity rates below 5%, but health officials would still encourage visitors to get tested before entering the facility.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo s star turn for his perceived frank and informative nationally broadcast COVID-19 briefings through the early months of the pandemic has taken a deep fall in recent weeks.
The state s admitted undercounting of nursing home deaths due to coronavirus and the ongoing scrutiny over a March 25 order to allow nursing home residents in hospitals to return home with COVID has put the Democratic governor in the most precarious position since he took office a decade ago.
Cuomo has had his share of scandals as governor.
He was accused of meddling in a corruption-busting commission that led to an investigation by then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who ultimately found no criminal wrongdoing. And his ex-top aide, Joseph Percoco, is in prison for kickbacks.
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