“It is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate.”
According to a report released by New York Attorney General Letitia James, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s (D) administration severely undercounted the number of COVID-19 related deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%. “Preliminary data obtained by OAG suggests that many nursing home residents died from COVID-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [the Department of Health’s] published total nursing home death data,” a summary of the report reads. The report surveyed 62 nursing homes,10% of the state’s total number of facilities, to ask them about on-site and in-hospital deaths from COVID-19.
