Report: New York Adds over 1,500 Coronavirus Fatalities to Long-Term Care Death Toll

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Report: New York Adds over 1,500 Coronavirus Fatalities to Long-Term Care Death Toll

Hannah Bleau 8 Feb 2021

New York State reportedly added over 1,500 coronavirus-related fatalities to its long-term care facility virus death toll, the Empire Center for Public Policy reported Sunday.

The total number of long-term care facility deaths linked to the Chinese coronavirus “jumped by another 1,516” as the state continues to update its numbers following last month’s bombshell report from New York Attorney General Letitia James. The report found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration vastly undercounted the number of nursing home deaths “by as much as 50 percent.”

As the Empire Center for Public Policy detailed, reported deaths in New York’s long-term care facilities have jumped 63 percent in the last ten days alone, although the Cuomo administration maintains that the changes do not affect the overall coronavirus death toll. Nevertheless, long-term care facility deaths have jumped from 9,154 as of January 28 to nearly 15,000:

    The newly disclosed deaths represented an almost eight-fold increase for assisted living and other adult-care facilities, which provide non-medical services for their elderly and disabled residents.

    When combined with the recently revealed count of nursing home residents who died in hospitals, the publicly reported toll in New York’s long-term care facilities had increased by almost 5,800, or 63 percent, over the past 10 days (see table).

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    The Health Department’s data on long-term care deaths had previously omitted residents who were sent to hospitals before passing away, a practice used by no other state. Officials had refused to share the full count in spite of months of queries from legislators and the media and a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the Empire Center.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/08/report-new-york-adds-over-1500-coronavirus-fatalities-to-long-term-care-death-toll/

[PeteS in CA]

Yeah, I suspected AG Letitia James' "revelation" wouldn't be the final word. It's possible there may be other shoes waiting to drop. The key question is how many died as a result of Cuomo's month-long (IIRC) order. Cuomo, et al, are still stonewalling releasing daily deaths data, necessary to answer that question.