WSJ, NYT: Cuomo Advisers Altered Report that Undercounted COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths to Shift Blam

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WSJ, NYT: Cuomo Advisers Altered Report that Undercounted COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths to Shift Blame from NY Gov.

Michael Patrick Leahy 5 Mar 2021

Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that advisers to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) intervened with officials of the New York State Department of Health in July and caused them to underreport the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state at that time by at least 2,800, and possibly more.

The primary purpose of this New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report, as initially published July 6, 2020 using the significantly underreported COVID-19 nursing home death data, appears to have been to absolve Gov. Cuomo of responsibility for the dramatic increase in nursing home COVID-19 deaths that took place in the immediate aftermath of his March 25, 2020 order requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive residents.

“A survey conducted by NYSDOH shows that approximately 6,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to facilities between March 25, 2020 and May 8, 2020,” the July 6, 2020 NYSDOH report stated:

    However, an analysis of the timing of admissions versus fatalities shows that it could not be the driver of nursing home infections or fatalities. An individual nursing home-by-nursing home analysis of admissions versus fatalities further supports this finding.

    A causal link between the admission policy and infections/fatalities would be supported through a direct link in timing between the two, meaning that if admission of patients into nursing homes caused infection—and by extension mortality— the time interval between the admission and mortality curves would be consistent with the expected interval between infection and death.

    However, the peak date COVID-positive residents entered nursing homes occurred on April 14, 2020, a week after peak mortality in New York’s nursing homes occurred on April 8, 2020. If admissions were driving fatalities, the order of the peak fatalities and peak admissions would have been reversed.

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Two Female Aides Depart Andrew Cuomo Administration
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/05/two-female-aides-depart-andrew-cuomo-administration/

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The kiss of death

 

WH Would Support Investigation of Alleged Cuomo Nursing Home Coverup
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/05/wh-would-support-investigation-of-alleged-cuomo-nursing-home-coverup/

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Ethics professor who advises Cuomo caught scrubbing nursing home deaths from report by health officials

https://www.thecollegefix.com/ethics-professor-who-advises-cuomo-scrubs-nursing-home-deaths-from-report-by-health-officials/

Linda Lacewell is superintendent of New York state’s Department of Financial Services. Her bio notes that she also teaches ethics as an adjunct law professor at New York University.

Maybe not for much longer.

The New York Times identifies Lacewell among the “most senior aides” to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who rewrote a report by state health officials to hide the true number of deaths in nursing homes – more than 9,000 – following the Democrat’s executive order on COVID-19 early in the pandemic.

Does anyone seriously believe NYU will can her without serious public exposure and pressure?