Elise Stefanik asks feds to investigate Cuomo's 'failed' nursing home policyFox News, May 16, 2020
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is demanding a federal probe into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policy to send recovering coronavirus patients back to nursing homes and related concerns that deaths at the facilities are being knowingly under-counted.
The state estimates that more than 5,000 nursing home and longterm-care facility patients have died from coronavirus, but a new report says New York could be drastically under-reporting the deaths -- prompting Stefanik and fellow GOP lawmakers urge the investigation.
"Today I joined my [New York GOP] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo's failed nursing home policies," Stefanik tweeted Friday. "NOW they admit they unethically changed the way they report nursing home deaths. An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY -- NEED ANSWERS."
In taking aim at the Democratic governor, Stefanik linked to a Daily Caller report published Friday that found New York is knowingly under-reporting the number of nursing home patients who died from the virus.
Until April 28, New York reported coronavirus deaths for all nursing home and adult-care facility residents. But then around May 3, the state quietly changed how it reported statistics about nursing home deaths to exclude residents who died in a hospital. Only nursing home residents who died at their facility would be counted.
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