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State Chapters => NY/NJ => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on July 14, 2021, 04:26:31 pm
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Surprise: New York State is undercounting COVID deaths by more than 10,000
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/07/14/surprise-new-york-state-is-undercounting-covid-deaths-by-more-than-10000-n402181 (https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/07/14/surprise-new-york-state-is-undercounting-covid-deaths-by-more-than-10000-n402181)
You would think the humiliation of having New York’s own attorney general expose the nursing-home undercount would have led Cuomo’s administration to be forthright about their other data. Being caught in a cover-up to minimize the severity of the pandemic is egregious, but it’s an opportunity at least to come clean with the public, reset, and promise to be honest going forward.
They’re still covering up, according to the AP.
Strangely, though, they’re doing it in plain sight. Cuomo got away with hiding the nursing-home data for the entirety of 2020 because it was compiled by his own administration’s officials. His team was able to successfully suppress its release for months. The data on the total state death toll comes from death certificates, though, which are publicly available. The CDC knows the true statewide number, which stands at around 54,000, as does the New York City health department. Team Cuomo continues to run with 43,000 as its official toll, which one CDC official described as “a little strange” to the AP. Why try to cover up when the truth is commonly known?
Allahpundit's and the AP's writing is a little ambiguous. The 54K vs. 43K dispute is total Covid deaths in NY, not nursing home deaths only.
That NY probably used ultra-vague "standards" (like most/all states) to identify "Covid Deaths" is a different issue.
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Or maybe the Feds are OVERCOUNTING deaths.
Trust me, Cuomo would have inflated the tally if he could.
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IMO, all states are over-counting, by using simplistic standards that ignore preexisting conditions. Cuomo's "health" bureaucrats used different standards than other states to make NY and Cuomo look good, IMO.