Cuomo blames Trump for nursing home death undercount
by David Hogberg, Healthcare Reporter |
| January 29, 2021 04:16 PM
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to accusations that his administration undercounted nursing home deaths from COVID-19 by laying the blame on the Trump administration.
"Where this starts, is, frankly, a political attack from the prior federal administration and HHS and their great spokesman Michael Caputo, who was a protégé of Roger Stone," Cuomo said at a press conference Friday.
Cuomo was forced to address the issue after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report Thursday, claiming that the New York Department of Health had been undercounting nursing home deaths in the state “by approximately 50 percent.â€
Caputo, who was assistant secretary of public affairs for the Health and Human Services Department under President Donald Trump, criticized Cuomo in August for signing an executive order requiring nursing homes to accept residents who had been discharged from the hospital after being hospitalized for COVID-19. Critics contend the policy put nursing home residents at risk. Cuomo rescinded the order in May.
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